Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4e973f165c0dcbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.0 KB
MD5: e710b9534fc0f38b3e86c395a9da6155 SHA-1: d9a544ab28731c7f2ebd6076c734f67b18e4a24d SHA-256: c4e973f165c0dcbfa555ef7b85169d8b2c62e5ccf248d88cac547ea2298f4b62
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962' and an ML classifier indicating high maliciousness. The presence of XFA forms and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an exploit is likely being leveraged. An embedded URL was also found, which is often used to download secondary payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • 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
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x26C2 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2774 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
9c58a0994eee827abd1bc8adae7b02a4c6236f9577fb5360a2838db447a23842		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x298D 1789 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2D9D 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2E49 77 bytes

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