Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd579b5c87f2610e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: f4b74fbf029a776d6bb31d08a32ec3bb SHA-1: ad77cb55c29de9d34f90b62e081b494503ff05e6 SHA-256: bd579b5c87f2610ee07e5f17453badd378ba10e0175a38044260333c102ce830
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and is flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' on both the main file and an extracted artifact strongly indicates exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the document's structure.

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
88f6e642bd3254b1eec1217f16ce393ee31edca96e752b9cf0f27189e5fe55a1		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43116 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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