Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d48d687f2c8c6b72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB
MD5: 77f365c71e282d31723ba716122a976d SHA-1: 764383f57f2d9eb9ee8da4b42d7ebe6ef9f82a27 SHA-256: d48d687f2c8c6b728ea56852ba2f4e85e65f519ba0e79d76d2035284e24a1fed
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms, 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, likely responsible for executing the malicious action. The exact nature of the script's payload could not be determined due to obfuscation, but it is presumed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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_0000026c.bin
e8e816c2c6c95f000b1a57e00c72dae4d33d74fd6bb1a479dd8f066e4c528c6a
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 98867 bytes