Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a711a9857f1fa55f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 32559c475a7a1a4ffc5e8de781aa04ce SHA-1: e84f63a6c27d494f45c4238788d9837d8c0f8498 SHA-256: a711a9857f1fa55f3baca5d7e9c8e2863f01550eab0002edc77945893cb3f873
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple high-confidence heuristics and ClamAV detections. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded URL further supports its role as a delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
e285169508bda93968b7c32f7ecea22688c4dd5f8e73d361bdb9d53fe62f3468
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14240 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely