Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abe5bdfc6e36b7c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 62b2a38775a5468068809acf277212a4 SHA-1: d1d07d4b50afce7ee9f74868ce5f67dd1a20b4c9 SHA-256: abe5bdfc6e36b7c11132d989883ef35eb7c79c0bd749108fdbaa812b4c47732e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, indicating it contains a known exploit. Heuristics confirm the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, which are common delivery mechanisms for malware. The embedded content is likely responsible for executing the exploit and downloading a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
6242133dc74c0faaef4a42bddf5fb1f13518ee4b1db8f31cb285324afee5b494
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42758 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely