Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0f800cdba2497a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: c04c7c22e2bf6a30bd5783241d9dd954 SHA-1: 4716ac233856e8bc7da5fecda72595995c05d560 SHA-256: a0f800cdba2497a01046df7c5554d5410a91d13707dc9e475f5fb057c563a525
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious PDF exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
fdd4a829aebda78e5e3b32b13ba3ef9fdf1cc48d79c37428cde2b7a06d385b56
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1428 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).