Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdfa9b792d8e07fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 3b87a6f786487b28b82fffdf2509a9a0 SHA-1: fa53f15397ec59b31733393113c7504a76eb97f5 SHA-256: cdfa9b792d8e07fdb54ca416533c1f5e89e4a12e7001d23c6c93e225b8914c06
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers critical heuristics related to exploit payloads. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836' strongly suggests it's designed to exploit a vulnerability. The presence of an embedded file, specifically 'embedded_file_obj0014.bin', indicates it's likely a dropper for a secondary stage.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
425aa3a7624fabf0089a7c06a3ed5e0137648fae532758b21845d9cef157e824		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 681 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x456 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
17b4ba3f4a3a7260518350855d15564c5697ca53ffd18f5fa8c8fd164c66d360		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4FE 502 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x73F 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
279309ff5a036581c5ca06d2ad0a626ababe31c8e60104c2c8b2b8b725bfba2f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x911 40808 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8C3 147 bytes

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