PDF malware analysis — malicious · c46e9c87db5a72a8

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.8 KB Authoring application: %title%

MD5: a01558a757361ee54dd08f3021519c39 SHA-1: 80a0e3a895b5c28b5bee4c8db58c3298d4bf4e89 SHA-256: c46e9c87db5a72a86ae55fae960802b64bb3d7203f740db9d8b9221c2b687872

176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962. It contains embedded files, suggesting it's designed to drop or execute a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded URL, though benign in reputation, is part of the exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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 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
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x111A	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x11CC	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `a73c8be45b64c9974d898f7ac116b9d22f6e67bc6dacd92b0d937ce6dfa49dae`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x13E5	8306 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x23DD	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2489	77 bytes

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