Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2397caf6ca3bdae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 03f7f7b3059ead598fa3deb80b085ce5 SHA-1: 24dcde489c070bab095a992b6e74462eb0a53870 SHA-256: b2397caf6ca3bdae8160444c4d4e7829fd4aa991b616ff0ddd0f35dcc4495296
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, with a high ML score of 0.999. The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an exploit is embedded. The ML classifier's high confidence and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
4e0c792a0b96d742fa6b11297e4826bc275846b59877fd31078a9fd7b940e7bd
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1407 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).