PDF malware analysis — malicious · c168ece565e9648a

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.5 KB

MD5: 6c9d8e7ee1e8334d19f6f92b34bec8d6 SHA-1: b3b711b35d31c491cf9714adee04664e2d339695 SHA-256: c168ece565e9648af0532e3651b11a0fc8a371fe1051e6e89026033160086f8f

88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0'. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests an exploit targeting PDF viewers. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact functionality is obscured by the PDF structure. The confidence is high due to the critical detection and the presence of exploit-related heuristics.

Heuristics 4

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
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://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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_0000026a.bin` `056782a4372de189993e58e3d5acebcab0189ee9cef0baf5d6c7bbe935f540af`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26A	113441 bytes

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