Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beb1603627c0fcd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB
MD5: 877b41b5378bbd2f8d82665b44ab731f SHA-1: b0cfd0fe452001a64e0b1cd384fa74fe89e2ee5d SHA-256: beb1603627c0fcd68505415bb456b7435f6b31dcc65fbaeb2ed7a7d2f300c303
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded script payloads and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader to execute malicious code. The embedded artifact further supports the delivery of a secondary payload.

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/xci/1.0/
    • 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
2198b95b66b63c5448f681c5bd9265dcd80edd8e44f941d23c4902320dcccdcf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42233 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely