Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b09c3129ba056a7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: adbf65f3c39d0f2bf229eacbd4e30c26 SHA-1: a8e79a5205c2a86c5fad417da5b989fd607f82e0 SHA-256: b09c3129ba056a7cde3587421fb3a6113585384383d6498663311abefe7b9b69
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. ML classification and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically targeting PDF exploits. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

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
6c205f9bf4186cee8bdbe3875155b08551f877cb71c1d09e006b0778b8664f3f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42726 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely