Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c005414231b5bead…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 3dec830fd4805d46ef1d2a1a9db5ea07 SHA-1: 8165f7aa8745c05701ae9cb9426b2450263bc498 SHA-256: c005414231b5bead9a7a62340e3920b6df6be365ad11e10f38249c3731e410a9
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, strongly indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detections confirm this, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The embedded script likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload, though its exact function is obscured by the PDF structure.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
923e89f32a23137b30bb7c4f32901db38dac5f454e507c7c0a7c50fb536f34cb
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14314 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely