Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf264c541854e454…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: e4de963611709bbec8ae36dc9dd90056 SHA-1: 22784f627190c841c840fe4c305b4b18ab014fc3 SHA-256: bf264c541854e454122d49ee43679bad74768256c84a893a4ca56307bd905b80
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating it contains a malicious exploit. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV' heuristics suggest the PDF is designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. The embedded file and ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' are key indicators of the attack.

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
882b52bfd93ae62041aa56d78de1ab4e6419ce8db6424ae9ef74c7d0e368246a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42902 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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