Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0760c81dbab8fdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: bd2262eb4a15eaf183586049a4380620 SHA-1: e4c62e5bd69c3cbae94093e92179fb9446656f1e SHA-256: c0760c81dbab8fdf20cb3be263d4437c3734a8ffbc2b5aec12c3cefe8ddc7e96
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the primary artifact of interest.

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
c183a95bcc9017cdec23fdea9ccc7da0b870c285961b757742bbfffdd0b58a99
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42732 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely