Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a60102badf9f3966…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB
MD5: 189a25164375a01fff43028e7a3112dc SHA-1: 203635ee390fe8daaa6c89b40384dae9066f8e81 SHA-256: a60102badf9f3966c11e178508720408c22fe2eb8d5cc9afb44fd1a96e8ea300
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, flagged by multiple heuristics including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0). The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded script is likely responsible for exploiting a vulnerability within the PDF viewer to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements further supports the exploit vector.

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
bd294663155a28fe61539112ba3075334a7de2faccf11b59054f683c54dfc7f8		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102044 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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