Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a111c1ec1d50e394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB
MD5: a82189557603923f8f12033b01a6176f SHA-1: ebc7b9e919ad3752f7a02f5b6011299347e1f5a0 SHA-256: a111c1ec1d50e394a39416a43c1e5c06b5d9146f6a68d0cd9967b1e38b815082
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating it contains an embedded script payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' suggests it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of embedded artifacts and script payloads strongly suggests a malicious intent to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
88ba0b7ddef1977bc982f4aa4ad32b6df8182be0e27cb12593ab337721429642
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42258 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely