Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b34e5bdf5a86866b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 279ccd90019cba0a30241b3b9bd1fb7a SHA-1: 6808631e6c6324c5d2cd083d71babf67d5b54ddd SHA-256: b34e5bdf5a86866be1e12ab2f82f3d744cd9754ead1a1d3229721d39813704e1
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. The presence of XFA forms and AcroForm buttons suggests an attempt to embed executable content or trigger exploits within the PDF structure. The ML classifier's high score and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate this file is a malicious exploit document.

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
aa1396b6d875b08f98488f56b8a3cd61c82e72849e283b8226fefc55ae1ff2b8
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1425 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).