Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b78c655a22aadce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.5 KB
MD5: 5b503ced547295774824082fef1703d0 SHA-1: e8ba2e06a6bbd41acb931a587e5729a93ae70c75 SHA-256: b78c655a22aadce97cd76d610ede7f8d6f0733d2bd7f18bf4226a7b306bb2d50
84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962. Static analysis revealed several PDF-specific heuristics, including an embedded file and an AcroForm button with an action trigger, indicating a potential exploit. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the malicious nature of the document, likely used as part of a phishing or exploit delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x2C43 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2CF5 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
d7b1078c871b5402d0a1bed7271ae0b15e8240f45cfc731f390a1abe670415be
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2F0E 1950 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x33A4 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x3450 77 bytes