Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2fd7c15cad8112c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: b60931fa3cf07294c8a05cd5d5f01278 SHA-1: aeaf7540476f51e5004cd0c55d518a8f4e298e62 SHA-256: d2fd7c15cad8112c509a3ef0c8d923d589855c115d52b8fb9422a556c06ba131
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple high-severity heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains a malicious exploit. The embedded artifact and PDF-specific exploit rules confirm the nature of the attack. The ML classifier output of 0.999995 provides high confidence in the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
585af294269fa7395eb76665d79b7faee7b4a4f3e57d12a6645bb6ac7c917718
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42697 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely