Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d217ba291c84b3b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: 6cfc74367aeab1e1acff9bc59d1fba55 SHA-1: 86ac925ef656a9a1c32bbd34f736abd5ad46b0ae SHA-256: d217ba291c84b3b75cd0ed5a12a21b5f468186464f0e4e53c69ca54712451b4f
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploitation. A critical ClamAV heuristic identified it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0', indicating a known exploit. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are related to XFA and Adobe, which are often part of exploit chains.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000023c.bin
0975072b4d85ef2c96edda244488cd49f94e4e04642915ed966fc6ba4e253be1
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80624 bytes