Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6d3cd3a2bb45040…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: bb53410e7824fd5285a43777c764aed0 SHA-1: 835a073eab59af0971be987d275bc0f76e49fd14 SHA-256: b6d3cd3a2bb45040fdd80f7332ca20cf07e3ea80772a6c6d6534ee5427be2a56
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including embedded script payloads and ML classification. ClamAV detection confirms it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

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
1e96fd5c4ae65e80f7775b38b1bb8065c548b9bfe72f4f3644284c1b981eace9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42847 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely