Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3d740a2df23e88c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB
MD5: 642e01c7be85877e95ac4f08ffe19069 SHA-1: 4839d4ac9be158a2f1246892ad0ca04f22fbe91d SHA-256: c3d740a2df23e88c6596aad1ab270ce6400c924920d3dddbcd2845f5f994dd91
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers XFA form heuristics, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. ClamAV detections confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769 on an extracted artifact. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit and delivering a secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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
31da5e34d6b9fc57c0db0d593d6cdd599f099d3491e2b7fbe00b4c27153c5101
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 83835 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely