Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b182932394709071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 09f4ef4cb494780ee1dc3005e5a967b7 SHA-1: cd09a1a3e46167c6a66ca5f88a20122a91917cb0 SHA-256: b1829323947090717f495fdd6846dc34c6dc927c84f58fb05d7dfb7b4ab1eaf3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830), indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like content, likely intended to execute the exploit and download a second-stage 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
0004ed9458472aa410b726c1f41701c06686905a8fadbd5e619875a5f9398cc4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42766 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely