Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2452a5c88efb408…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 420979848d3f04525e2b9ff92bc534e5 SHA-1: 9c08bed9dd7b35b1a53bccf118b0dd0ea6079620 SHA-256: b2452a5c88efb4085d2f0ce6e09f85d621a2862b7d244f3b07259c3a3b509161
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' strongly indicates this PDF is malicious. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download or execute a secondary stage. The embedded URLs, while mostly benign or unknown, are part of the document's structure.

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
a54a5751b981a5e220231eece0748596112e3964e8e36758fcbff1085ec38f2e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42674 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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