Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af70e7ff72c716d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 4a260adedddd760acd539b1af7a9cdce SHA-1: cc22ab048ce891bad8225b7e9404a018568dbdeb SHA-256: af70e7ff72c716d6990f27798c9e293b167269abe7ce665cd428ddde7061a0c3
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The critical ClamAV heuristic indicates this PDF is recognized as malware (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874). The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. An embedded binary artifact was also detected, likely containing the exploit payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
66bb1a774e95f03f28707d95ba24f2a00e7c5ec210535bc5c7cd7659d43c6b2e
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1476 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).