Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5d475d3a64b11ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 7643033034fc6757c3fe0670c916cd7d SHA-1: bb7f36ccc153d2899b39cdf633e7692f2099c482 SHA-256: d5d475d3a64b11ca4644ebf80e081d5f7770b61323b4f09ae2283802e0b1786f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detections indicate this PDF file is malicious, specifically identified as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious artifact. The embedded URL heuristics also suggest the document may interact with external resources, though the provided URLs are benign or unknown.

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
6ec01f1bbf6a31c930e62899b56a7bcd0a614331b855c5da79ce5a65bb9cee31
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42772 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely