Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2906179449d6ac1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: 36cc13a999aa4c849808a0501baa7527 SHA-1: 7c31e1ba5803bc7a7e20c2d15a368659e9206ea2 SHA-256: b2906179449d6ac1a30a345a9a360e6cb32ee355d66439a74d6b01c2b8e74b36
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers XFA form heuristics, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for exploiting a vulnerability to achieve code execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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_0000023c.bin
a5c4f2b81b6b260378c4148434d38ba3ec3fab09af537ac8b14ccf0ebd61e2c8
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80545 bytes