Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5e15d67eb52533a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 5ef0e7df18349417201a3f288d637f7f SHA-1: 38662de4b2a2885e9480f1e0e718cc0d2fe7b8e3 SHA-256: d5e15d67eb52533aa21e565423707a41eea1ce6a59aa9ebc334592412e854e93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded artifacts and triggers heuristics indicating an embedded script payload and an exploit. ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834' strongly suggests this is a malicious PDF designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are often targeted in PDF exploits.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
af3ad7ed9d3688e719c018f697f55c86c5f518e4d98ce7c6e508ec1ff310a77f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 688 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45D 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
57844399a4d9bcf49d2d0d795c77a4a971f065837ca92b5b3ae64f129718c8f0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50B 583 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x79D 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
222bbaab8d3b46fa8f4fec51bab63ead0b9e08a81cb9727fc206c3ac17a433b3		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A8 40844 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA87E 68 bytes

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