Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6a8b91b01affb4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 7d398e61a189bcb146459626e6fa1785 SHA-1: 3ea694b85285ac38cd4379c3dd8ba37c593943d6 SHA-256: d6a8b91b01affb4a79a9401fc9937d2b0818791ec9fce98a6b5b7048d5447d53
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings. ClamAV detections 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809' on the main file and an extracted artifact respectively, confirm its malicious nature. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document's structure, suggesting it may be part of the exploit chain.

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
ed76a2574ca3bb8f79bffc2a088eee052658fed771a1f297a1493f036cd09909
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18003 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely