Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b288e4110b554cce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: 0878a91f4df7c5964f88643017e57522 SHA-1: 4e8f91041d57a0dd6efb0d7a58b545a040ac2aec SHA-256: b288e4110b554cce00331b4266916840298aec7f8d648f9d5e9439296564c946
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834'. The ML classifier also returned a very high probability of maliciousness. The embedded nature and exploit detection suggest it's designed to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
acafbf00d4460b831017fcb97e759c933b9da6d851a78e15b8f646e5f3dfba79
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 688 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45D 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
3de17c8a92cc5666215c45f3236252235afbaf70388e41b0e4d4a452c5537b45
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50B 587 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x7A1 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
b9dc723fc1897043cac30393067b3c8734432f86871775cf0b1a1b3cf536269d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8AC 40654 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA7C4 68 bytes