Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aec633aed2bd459c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: 93c84775f5ffe835f19c25c5e0c3db7b SHA-1: 0304e915b58159c19b87540f3676980bad4c6c20 SHA-256: aec633aed2bd459ca2cf21eb426417f1177f7781cd7fd614551d4da8e5db8f5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content and has been detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The embedded script appears to be obfuscated JavaScript, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded file further supports the malicious nature of this document.

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
dcaf81a60e7f054309623fab8cef14fb946193e114a644b5934f3a7c04539327
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42570 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely