Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a275e9dc8aaf2a4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB
MD5: dcf252a3328bcf2f581b34ddfbe2d132 SHA-1: a7246f98a20d40ce98fdec102abd36559cd67625 SHA-256: a275e9dc8aaf2a4a8f2c4ab6010bc2559034fe144f1c48b175f076d850976314
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious PDF. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics strongly suggest the presence of an exploit. The embedded file and script payload further support this, pointing towards the delivery of a secondary malicious artifact.

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
d25fb84f0b020725ccc1af70603fd47a1e8211711be15821344bdab9c91f5242		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43272 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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