Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf2615c302d0c32c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.6 KB
MD5: 2962975f978defa2eefd6452a7259352 SHA-1: 990a07ab3606d631776c0c6ea04b792abc854883 SHA-256: cf2615c302d0c32ca5c1355bb2721848cc4a5b891904e5296687e83adad93b60
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious exploit. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload suggests the PDF is designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000023e.bin
3210913bd0ef2c4a0b3abba113bf5f309104b423fb1436a2d9896cf789ad7aea
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x23E 64052 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely