Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cce1a82f660972d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 81c6f9a00154652aabc7240fe40e5820 SHA-1: 9c17a73b73d13feda7115bb70a4917ca946566e4 SHA-256: cce1a82f660972d91e5539f91846cc3a691c0744774d9115c4cbc4ebbb2f5678
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834' strongly indicates this PDF is malicious and exploits a known vulnerability. The presence of multiple embedded files, including a significant one (67KB), suggests it's a dropper or exploit container. No document body text was available for further analysis of the lure, but the embedded script payload firing confirms its malicious nature.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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://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
26f5e8ee404995696c573094eac2bb6a93c921e4225ceda7543be4acf08b1fc3		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 688 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45D 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
5ff3dc5c14ee4eb8a8c1cfb4822905b3d5e7f1c76a4a8ec3fec7b2ee99175cca		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50B 581 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x79B 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
421f92c2e8ad27f6b844b51e066a33aa76611e46bf1e8eee04bd4a96fcbff92f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A6 40919 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8C7 68 bytes

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