Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4926313d4922635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: ac62228750778a56995d14d43240a818 SHA-1: 89fb024268e134cb3fe683d2904be414b747d2c0 SHA-256: c4926313d492263554411874d2f5e6e9b4dcd19e82fc38a2f139d4fbada65bce
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by multiple high-severity heuristics, including PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS, and detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The presence of embedded script payloads within an XFA form indicates an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. This suggests the file is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
75ac411868929300217c20013926608dae1a3d3c62da95698eee58f9239c59a2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
b9dc770324ae2a66fd1d9c8b9605e3a9ddaae9d1311dffe002d37a59fdc6e4bc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x447 183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
4d6926f223604299fc43d4070519d64d672619f8a4df087223db67acd096cda3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x549 365 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x701 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
970bbf81d4589db87b09163fd05c324f714937df62a7cfc9e61ca554213bdc36
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x80C 40753 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA787 68 bytes