Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c55696858b3f3b5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB
MD5: e2715f707a5a662497019e7273d08138 SHA-1: c9a31b919c63cab5cd9134b419c530cdc3dda7d0 SHA-256: c55696858b3f3b5b7287370f7d9ceb8c5bff27c46d3cc4adb70a6d8ab87ef892
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of embedded files and scripts strongly suggests it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The ClamAV signature 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' is the primary indicator of the specific threat.

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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD5 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
58481460d0e5b9442c3b8f27ae56f7aa3969be756775de0d79c8d445a871b6f0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 689 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
69650a61091a018036679a3439cc6a018b6a91ebe9e0e3a6b36ceb04d6491a4f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x449 160 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
d3c436782b41cf1047343af47844312c80abc42a1b100ae303d3902d85421d57
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x534 469 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x754 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
6b6b8a1bab6d4954fdbabbec5f6fe3002880097e4a9e73ffaa33bc78ee5f838a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x85F 42121 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely