Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a52064ea043284a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: ea187611a9ed9037262c3c0247898a37 SHA-1: 345314a683c518907702d8e985c0b830734feff8 SHA-256: a52064ea043284a1f2f1a6210f68db9cc9fa8bdce55e62b5500c02ea8c4ecf1a
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content and was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, as malicious. The embedded script, although obfuscated, likely serves as a payload delivery mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs further supports the attack pattern of luring the user into executing malicious content.

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
589de0aa48e4ffee4edfae6e3f4b28fa64983eb7898d4b314e6408bfeadf4ad4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42668 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely