Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1091482bda9ea02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.6 KB
MD5: 7aed65b9dcb942298ce324f8c9774809 SHA-1: 14dd5fc4d2c89a6839b09c1fa05e0b29f569d67e SHA-256: e1091482bda9ea023b8378fb90d060c3d89cbbaed55e26a7c51f318b62175042
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers heuristics related to XFA forms and embedded script execution. ClamAV detections indicate it is a known exploit dropper. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent' detections.

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
70822c6af1a31b7d6f93ca75cf112daaf0e940062431d0ddc46de125446b343d
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18358 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely