Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6be771a273326e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB
MD5: 5b98a358a5bcee3f97aa0b14194d0081 SHA-1: bafb62f7700a6e97d2794bde0b08e6d7d262c53c SHA-256: d6be771a273326e3a5cef795679ca93ff67f6cfd4f7a2bda1d0de2f8ee0f687c
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains XFA forms with embedded executable scripts, as indicated by multiple high and critical heuristic firings. ClamAV detected the file as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836', and an embedded artifact was also flagged by ClamAV. The script's intent is to exploit the XFA form vulnerability to execute a payload, likely leading to further compromise.

Heuristics 8

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
e2225cee13ca18c4f3cb47dcc1c3e92615b9c9d0574a4971cea51bf3ab93acb6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 676 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
8f862640c64598de2a20541f8fcbf4cb3681fe9445ef5ef6c54dfb734073a829		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x451 127 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
16c34bb0e6a488dc043d09cf5f9921e2c0e6c114cdd84cf4a3793377ff24cb65		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x51B 347 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6C1 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
c14f765d84cecc691b69a852eb3f7ce594f9702b590e4a1409537115673574fd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x893 41293 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xAA2A 147 bytes

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