Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de1a01d3c587ae0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB
MD5: 08ec4a2a3b1ea09fb825bcfd07ec5c20 SHA-1: e133824a26f84815553e18570e687893f79bc7c1 SHA-256: de1a01d3c587ae0d6ef73fc5e87d0ab56e02635b8775ffa8f47f31a12542255d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-severity heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded file and script payload further supports this. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' suggests a known exploit targeting PDF viewers.

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
43ff2ad2b80f7018095818aef8f20083065a9258cd151269b044e894c70176a4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42446 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely