Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928 PDF malware analysis — malicious · c8d92398db6edfb7

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB

MD5: ff2f3dcb23bbd980ec32d4834a6478a2 SHA-1: 8480be4678ed1a9f9ff83b2603002f0a5dc4c401 SHA-256: c8d92398db6edfb748d676d47e4e211605ed5b60766d500edc3d4c27529f1daf

134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928' strongly indicates a malicious PDF exploit. The presence of XFA forms with executable scripts (PDF_XFA_SCRIPT) and embedded files further supports this, suggesting the document is designed to trigger an exploit. The embedded URL, while benign on its own, is part of the document's structure that facilitates the exploit.

Heuristics 8

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-36928 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928
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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x3A0B	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x3ABD	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `d55fa07f327f29e42c02d4639aecaf44fd937336b354a0f93363700a573d3a00`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x3CD6	1608 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x4064	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x4110	77 bytes
`font_00_cff_off00004224.bin` `062eede2d0cc5d3972869dc7e2f2f9f01d1d1b3756b715c8252f06948ce99ae2`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x4224	1192 bytes

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