Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb30f40dae79f965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: cb18c28f056e2c1f6b131a877988281d SHA-1: a39ddb47796851ac7a8b23c810c0c4a57056f56d SHA-256: cb30f40dae79f96543283cf7ca7e045c174107c391d44c8c78046bda9701e038
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20031. Static triage indicates the presence of a suspicious extracted artifact, specifically a long encoded blob within an embedded file. This suggests the PDF is likely exploiting a vulnerability to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20031 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20031
  • 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
  • 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
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
6995ec08822c07d7d8cf287e210a77717dc87c6a2c491893f726db02c45ce622
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x82 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).