Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cece5a462d06c365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: c08be79ca32f5721e2cbe72c0772c419 SHA-1: b45020efc864c85dcd2295e20db647686cd2ce92 SHA-256: cece5a462d06c365a36836e686eb657aaaf39ba0ba12eb220de1e4d350904364
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself indicates malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
d90578caa2bbf25ba6b5a01ede65372f267a030c13a0238b7f4f6ed0e965a15f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1452 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).