Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf260b2dda6f08d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: a96ff54d5a79ad8cb8d3f14fd12c8b68 SHA-1: 27cede93f9ba6972d2220913b40d586933f36f6d SHA-256: cf260b2dda6f08d79239e9423fb5727e534c28f76cd822e6c4b565164531c7cb
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating it contains malicious content. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files strongly suggests it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
a8e6f5f4773a0872e9736fb568e1b31852a9aa22c9e2a8933369957ee40d5d16		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45F 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
1051fec40eb30fca977e843560324926b62bd20cf0c09188e3e83f70aa33a8ec		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50D 583 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x79F 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
b605fe6ebf6f99763241f95117da0e79266599622fea046f69455b3f704c28ce		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8AA 40723 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 0xA807 68 bytes

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