Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb5257c74b48f7b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 3f4916aba1eff1cfab0cf0f7d31a7105 SHA-1: cafc2a963178c1b101991207d55e5028b4b36f24 SHA-256: cb5257c74b48f7b07c14e73c51111df3f1b542211074b0ea0b3b1bbd787fc227
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms, a known vector for exploitation. A critical heuristic indicates an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, and ClamAV detections confirm its malicious nature as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a lure.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
8e21f977cb819e722d7876cf773c806df7398dc0634a0e4f7db105a5134b0f87
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14234 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely