PDF malware analysis — malicious · ab1d23a9ab1b6ddd

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.8 KB Authoring application: %title%

MD5: 1bd2b3287b23c82a496165adfc5aa656 SHA-1: cb7a8a98d67e07ea7da8e0158b55e5f6a09507e1 SHA-256: ab1d23a9ab1b6dddf8529436cfe673aea7c35599e6d2f4a25ce2a83f29b22a00

176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. ClamAV detection indicates it is Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962, suggesting it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. An embedded file was extracted, which likely contains the secondary payload. The presence of an embedded URL, though benign in reputation, is often used in conjunction with exploit documents.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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 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
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x111A	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x11CC	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `7789c7c4d7fb1c5a119f65d00e7830f4389bfa3446cc6071a8fdc107b8e40d14`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x13E5	8310 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x23EC	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2498	77 bytes

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