Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4fee7c104c330fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 011054fac82dd8b6ed3293f85e6ecc85 SHA-1: 68dade04fa83732161041afbca1b74843b54ed02 SHA-256: a4fee7c104c330fca9124549f975404719947d2d7b23594f7d8fdd3819bca5ad
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains an exploit. The presence of XFA forms and AcroForm buttons suggests an attempt to interact with the user or trigger embedded actions. The extracted artifact 'stream_001_off000008ed.bin' is a suspicious component that likely contains the exploit code or payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
499454cbaf91268f0c82d63bf756860bb6bf498389352e67d512e91b1ef77651
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1432 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).