Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccf1b1e52d5a291c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 7b6dec833b70375ab5d774979dcbcdd3 SHA-1: 9487e0ae2643c290130d14afe134c26e10f69a88 SHA-256: ccf1b1e52d5a291c798c1aecbbaa4316d7d3e88cfad6dae692236f5e325e157b
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detections 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809' on the main file and an extracted artifact respectively, confirm its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, a common technique for PDF-based malware delivery.

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
43c4ef987ba6c1ea188f3d45020b6a3af2ae58976603ec7944e012c73b1871be
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14307 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely