Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7d8bd24320e379d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 7a86324a964fd739d96b034505b61abc SHA-1: 702bb43ab8d114a06c60e2f0f7391246329c3922 SHA-256: c7d8bd24320e379de13f5498e527c9ba96af7fcfc9e30ffeedb43875b4e7be80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836' strongly indicates a malicious PDF exploit. The presence of embedded script payloads and multiple embedded files further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body content appears to be obfuscated script fragments rather than user-readable text.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
d8bf209df925551dd0aa4b42a34d338da57307fd294744be28d8a5f1aa878d1f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 683 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x458 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c379838384fb2e7d679a3ceadb79e8ed478e26663cd83f4044273ee70ed0305a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x500 412 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6E7 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
1c7c96baf38f056a0ea27b06c8a74dbbb5c35f5f11196343ea82149dfcbd8e00
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8B9 40811 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA86E 147 bytes