Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc5050d5dc1d69c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 762a2d60efeea378ef5104b963643ddf SHA-1: 246712e628d5d8effe6b18aa509e8d4a556035c8 SHA-256: dc5050d5dc1d69c2eceab1308df3cc4ac5a89430dfbf80699d057ca035b6d5a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, as indicated by critical heuristic firings. ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' on both the main file and an extracted artifact strongly suggests a malicious exploit. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the payload, though its exact function is obscured by obfuscation.

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
2dae5cdabcf415bfb4e6b907113bdc9eb8102a812f89fefc6c22cdfa882f80ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42715 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely