Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1101b0d25956a22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.0 KB
MD5: 5e2bc00967fac6073da6292035cbfa10 SHA-1: 41397864679ef0a3db758b072749a6f55a32498e SHA-256: a1101b0d25956a22b1a66496be1312fad85ea00453067e167ef71d7e937c9bc3
84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection and the presence of embedded files strongly indicate a malicious PDF. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the document's structure. The PDF likely exploits a vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload, though the specific exploit mechanism is not detailed in the provided heuristics.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x26C0 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2772 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
9c58a0994eee827abd1bc8adae7b02a4c6236f9577fb5360a2838db447a23842		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x298B 1789 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2D9B 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2E47 77 bytes

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