Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5382c1d6d63c020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: ec0a92926f87c6fefce89ace9d7f06e6 SHA-1: 4c6c3f97f49fb28921f4c69704225bcdf265c269 SHA-256: b5382c1d6d63c02043628f59064cf48b2f9800d8a0bde95e680082591e3a1bf5
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded script content and was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, indicating it is a malicious exploit. The embedded script likely serves as a payload delivery mechanism. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files further supports the exploitation vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
e6abc0a316fb897ca4bf89b015c23123f1bdd195841bb0350292254b8d1f3c67
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42575 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely