Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d47f57fd10324e8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 7a0285916c1303d1b549ae1c5b19723f SHA-1: 5843a05c7a105098e97eda6576b09dfa69e79b89 SHA-256: d47f57fd10324e8ec27fda4eb6e1a6568ee31219b1f93b9ba890fcda37e5d5a8
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings including ClamAV detections for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
08daa6de305924e9bf6b3bd9a2101753205574139f1d6fc9ea45954e43777758
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 17961 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely