Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b13e35628697464a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.2 KB
MD5: 87e46f86bc648294e0027654ae858402 SHA-1: 2433b1d94e8c63157b0a3f9003dc29e9e15b6687 SHA-256: b13e35628697464a7e97dedb90d49d12376d23b6ea004505e469230314f6f36c
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the presence of an embedded artifact. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' strongly suggests exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability. The XFA form heuristic further points to a potential attack vector leveraging Adobe's XML Forms Architecture. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_pdf_script_0000026a.bin
3ab0a473c3467f75df0c58d76614e036ca2cadea83726fa9e840b36e888208f5
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26A 113195 bytes