Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af932d74f39333a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: c8e0a54e94c19901b84dbb09ca64b9bb SHA-1: 94675221700ed35e82cd54418fc12f39503f6211 SHA-256: af932d74f39333a9e718f4d899ea34c83f64fbc695bc89d99f185f78ead56638
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to deliver and execute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
da7ade9c9d4d75c3b9d7de3af35055340f6e3b8df0a158ac19cdce21a066f2d0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42730 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely