Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3541203becfefa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB
MD5: 43244bc23ad5acc57c74c9a81794f32a SHA-1: 571b6ebd8a6de1673a0997ffcedec541bc53e844 SHA-256: c3541203becfefa667341c7dd7d00ccda276f6ec0c7f82bd94be7d8fcd2219fe
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' and the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic indicate that this PDF contains malicious embedded script. The XFA form detected suggests a potential vector for exploit delivery. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, as is common with this type of attack. The confidence is moderate due to the lack of specific script content for detailed analysis.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000246.bin
54ae73c239376dc6461b1b9c539065accf3796e56f08079d31817d38a33467a5
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102347 bytes