Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab2e0b7f93441d1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

22.7 KB Authoring application: 6.74.92.81.72.154.129.92.126.104.80.77.146.148.129.146.147.145.71.136.75.81.72.90.130.92.143.128.145.146.132.104.141.147.71.129.75.80.85.72.90.145.132.147.74.92.114.147.145.136.141.134.77.133.145.142. (via .84.71.72.90.136.133.71.126.137.83.91.88.79.79.79.72.154.126.137.84.92.70.142.74.148.96.114.137.134.134.134.138.143.148.107.83.97.106.78.78.78.78.78.150.96.96.96.96.97.96.96.96.96.96.96.96.96.96.96.96)
MD5: 52681d780ecdf3a593d4234931f2c9e3 SHA-1: 3abc408bf36f0c6d05c75ad0c9ac32926302b51a SHA-256: ab2e0b7f93441d1ada3ab167059b4b162e016791995bba894e22ffbda39e37c5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962' strongly indicates a malicious PDF exploit. The presence of XFA forms with risky executable scripts, along with embedded files, suggests the document is designed to deliver a secondary payload. The attack pattern likely involves exploiting a PDF viewer vulnerability to execute this payload.

Heuristics 9

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • 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
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x3790 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
b40a217a8d9b8d3671cc3874c550d30941b93ca6dde99995d43921dede579865		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x3842 1183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
1ceb66b0e12ac6ac8a24e7cbfd90009e56096bc312864dd1b9120f479530901a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x3A92 1726 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x3E5F 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
ce4a3f07835c725838e55947d6b1f21771e0ad8084ee86d0890ecc12bd5231fd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x3F21 2427 bytes
font_00_cff_off000042f1.bin
062eede2d0cc5d3972869dc7e2f2f9f01d1d1b3756b715c8252f06948ce99ae2		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x42F1 1192 bytes

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