Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd40db94f88d9235…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB
MD5: f6dceb65eee588cea3b3aa0b21d82fb7 SHA-1: 3610cd8bb59e421e4c0431cc4b519161c62a5291 SHA-256: cd40db94f88d923565db8c29fb744eef8672f5fa0e22b9c8718496411f6556b5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The ML classifier output of 0.999995 strongly supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
02b26b74241e450bfbbf59a289bb1fc87426083fa336dcde1906fb6ce49981ff
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43631 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely