Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a19715669c8e0d16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: f49cdfec4bf4b5aa6863a368daa327ee SHA-1: ba80e0fe2db84fcffed5bbbb6302ca61c0365950 SHA-256: a19715669c8e0d162da9847b1b8c5fb4da1ca7d065ed9860ddde427e1d393902
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The PDF file contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings including 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS'. ClamAV also detected the file as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830', confirming its malicious nature. The embedded script likely attempts to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader to download and execute a secondary payload.

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
fa7d18e56450f852417b9f8dd13dfe3e7fc95cf9bae1e4e8f5a61ba6f218bff6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42940 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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