Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c482f7d17511da59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.4 KB
MD5: 27b999a18e45d0eb0aa42d2c1f272d82 SHA-1: 673822f0e63a5899b756a3005cbde23b9d360c9f SHA-256: c482f7d17511da590fdfa99801b9abb674566518ac2be90270492402f3357859
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and utilizes XFA forms, both flagged as malicious. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789
  • 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://www.x&#102;a.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000325.bin
6e2edffa3bed3ee8044082001688d5c7ed2f5474c6c26ce7fcbb7d334531dc3b
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x325 18117 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely