Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5b94967d3507953…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: 0a4086d7ef4095fd3cef0df33c23c799 SHA-1: 857c2ff5c85089832fe807e66f1d35a7823b7726 SHA-256: c5b94967d350795354027345cb4bc06beac272548d1b74bfcecdb8c7590e4fb0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains a malicious exploit. The embedded artifact and PDF-specific exploit rules confirm the nature of the threat. The primary IOC is the ClamAV detection signature.

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
bdab6d046e770ad0b616929a7655789b50f66b03365a89ef96547f77fb27c163
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42864 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely