Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0a2ca63455a56f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 8abc778d7c965612cd340dc7618e00ec SHA-1: c07f6fce0fe25f15d1c62c15f8a8be51fa9edd8f SHA-256: d0a2ca63455a56f8ccd7de0bf94a298bf444b9102acc884c1671699d92c75ea5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The embedded script is obfuscated and appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports the exploit delivery vector.

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
39bbcff240ee6d448fb11ab0b4d734b9356e38476c376c1854967a92e97c2a6f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43126 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely