Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7cf7aa378119282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 112664f6b31f0e9df9aa87efb85100d8 SHA-1: bc15a9abc9ab62b869eed9e19702fc480fe4c22c SHA-256: b7cf7aa378119282896da5d95fd76c577674f8ab761904b3b95e357771f53d42
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834). It contains embedded files and scripts, indicating it's designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The presence of embedded script payloads and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest an exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
3bc03ada599733d8625a07bbc3bdd2177cdae0130ca5e8b6ee05d23833d0f86b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 686 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45B 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
f76bde225ea991f1890467c24ea838c3f1705eae3e9c6d4422254bc84ba2c64e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x509 581 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x799 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
548ff682d15a50a7d6a540f3084be12f565e1ed271a5a35a750cc34cf3f446f4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A4 40836 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA872 68 bytes