Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4cc1000a20c2313…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB
MD5: 32e5176d414fb4ad6b0f472f552ef89d SHA-1: 269e283169acc4d555d8394296544127d46de77c SHA-256: a4cc1000a20c23132e64ee75db5bbd09a3400ab7f0932937438753141607396f
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and an embedded script payload, flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. ClamAV detections indicate it is a known malicious PDF exploit. The embedded script is likely responsible for delivering the malicious payload, though its exact function cannot be determined due to obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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.
  • 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_pdf_script_00000246.bin
e4446f159305ffed3a9e5bfc1b093b724a1871f3dc452a6baf21cd37d640ff97
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102156 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely