Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfd66677ca781a08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 4da778f1e65720dde0d8d8e8df4f572b SHA-1: 9753a9207da1ad27647432e13a030719ee4ad23e SHA-256: dfd66677ca781a08506b8607b8b0d0c60f5d832b8d0b4844aa4315e13e3a2299
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' indicates the file is a known PDF exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The extracted document body content appears to be obfuscated script or data, likely part of the exploit mechanism. No specific malware family could be confidently identified.

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
36e3bfc5b7d878f19d29ae06fd0b73b146f8f2c593986c0d896ff36cfa8e548f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42956 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely