Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af0e211a088eef45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 5abca084826e46fbf5ee2cd5e2b3fbb9 SHA-1: e09e7c032ca9b8888d64df17edde08c3571c3dc6 SHA-256: af0e211a088eef45e56e761e4d0581c4ffc25c4f96f7cbd49f0946637eec5415
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings including ClamAV detections for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
8027ca630ae05c187f3ff4bba0e9295dad962d404a3696966ee2cce389722c92
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14216 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely