Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca1382b811e440f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: f8c6c728c3fb12520f35e33d3c4aad18 SHA-1: 7c6b427ec8725659d90d173d45ce16905265b56d SHA-256: ca1382b811e440f02e6328e9a6582c0ad7901c094929460b01ba703ef7d7de06
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. The presence of XFA forms and AcroForm buttons with action triggers suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The ML classifier output of 0.999296 strongly indicates malicious intent. The embedded artifact 'stream_001_off000008ed.bin' likely contains the exploit code or payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • 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
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
0613477bf3d7511808f963ec4bf4ad374919d20bda6cb85de364caf981c86c29
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1483 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).