Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c48eeee1999a8c46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: fca368e052549040ba4d6ac655064e1d SHA-1: ef12a07dd00e1e206cee1ff1449b8bc6b6ced1a7 SHA-256: c48eeee1999a8c46f2e3a7e42ba9f805f6a7a849d598c81abe77cfac5ab4f81d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files further supports its malicious nature. While specific script content is not detailed, the overall structure and detection signatures point to a typical exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
0b4b543b4477fc43c3622f457fcd85bbe389f55d40e8cacd93cc7c4b2c7c5c6f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42774 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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