Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9707d83196640a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 6da04dfc156a60676c79c99b830d6b4f SHA-1: 84c5676c50a6506c5856e7c291e1d176998bfa57 SHA-256: d9707d83196640a24fc7bcf1e652ce8a280f39032a8c0c35f32c8341043b7af9
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detections (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809) confirm its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, a common technique for PDF-based malware delivery. The presence of XFA form elements also suggests a potential attack vector.

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
f5e812b9cc61fb0e532a1bd3f11fc0a58e81afb534e6b6b9133d554b91f9cf39
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14306 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely