PDF malware analysis — malicious · ba8f709fbac3969b

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB

MD5: 41f088e7efa9ac91dfde52b4839a0d96 SHA-1: 2d5eab63032cc14cbe04063fe1245725f5f6c4d7 SHA-256: ba8f709fbac3969b2266fd94b22d5098415b36a2fe1b149fa83a9ea274944dcf

148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including an embedded script payload and XFA form usage, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'PDF_XFA' heuristics. ClamAV detections ('Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809') further confirm its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact function cannot be determined due to obfuscation. The presence of an embedded URL suggests a potential delivery or command-and-control vector.

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
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.
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin` `a95f966b9333cc6344973705779b3a1056a7522b3f14c7d5df4f7e0bad4a107d`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329	14239 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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