Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade2c42fccc9df51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 8920b9a0d33617c31bb5a4737f779927 SHA-1: a34638081921616503aa6185ef2133b9e19bd861 SHA-256: ade2c42fccc9df51bf94cfdee38b9fed6b4e81441cca94f4526d198c069c6879
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834' indicates the file is a known PDF exploit. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to deliver a malicious payload. The exact nature of the payload is not clear from the provided evidence, but the exploit itself is the primary attack vector.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
169e8e1e92f9ada7b8931e336b899fea1968ab67d51db13fbde148aeddf0981b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 688 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45D 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c3501a2120e57b5016cf56c38d65a4d1a33a861d4b852677322f2430eea73082		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50B 580 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x79A 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
478c1df87032c59c8c8c03c1cd44f139fd478b502944c08355bb616a5991311f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A5 40894 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8AD 68 bytes

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