Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f6d6d00a297f89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: a7bfc80c131dfc61b45e1fa8628dc0bc SHA-1: 9a778c4e6bf135af792bfc9af7a9187bf566d197 SHA-256: a6f6d6d00a297f8985888e3e695774b5ececae3fd9134ecd897e9cbefab3ba64
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834, indicating it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. The ML classifier also strongly flags it as malicious. Several embedded files were extracted, one of which is likely the payload, and the PDF structure suggests an embedded script payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
f0fabc6288e383f2ba3ebc00e6ae5ecd5598c6cd7ceb95f4696503cd7a55d35f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 688 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45D 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
ba9eefd826e127942b4e2c0d1bc8205943a76615477b54b9313e283342f79ba5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50B 575 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x795 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
ff2e96bc53fcc4466ac125891b7a0aece5c11990a3d9ec367858f997f520fec5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A0 40941 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8D7 68 bytes