Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcbb18a416c62e2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: a58428425de7a8584215fe43493c19ec SHA-1: 0477b2f84b5097a08d83a4786a753a48f652db2a SHA-256: dcbb18a416c62e2e0fb4d7f9a502f1b4c0dd29076cfe955785021c99f659c06e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities for payload delivery. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, a common vector for PDF exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
ebd448d30130e1d7245d19803deeed6cd6f60dacb22a7bf3a5ffe9fa46f28ab4		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43133 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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