Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab0196c607ca2383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 6d4ecbea8d2fb8bee71546580ddc8b7d SHA-1: b9a911d7a0fbb2725f4d467ab8f02606dc8fc51c SHA-256: ab0196c607ca2383adec01495ceda996fff8d5c489887b5fdd86c020285dc3b5
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by heuristic firings. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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
fa285df93f88b25ee4656d9cf0c1e67a78e3737fbdf339fe2fb31b97f417556a
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14305 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely