Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e13def964bc49ca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB
MD5: 083773e982107a3d19b3fff172fdc239 SHA-1: 2078318d4fed33b71bb490719c49d54e1a6174ce SHA-256: e13def964bc49ca523aaeca754d866ceb7096a91d163161f2c371b4c8bdae854
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is identified as malicious by multiple high-severity heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834). It contains embedded files and scripts, indicating it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests an exploit targeting PDF viewers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
47c132f602cfda9948cdfc29d0efaed5122b46b99658d235e5fe257727c57863
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 691 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1c5b7971dff586207e8235b49916e2677297f244f218ae7d19c6ac9623332af8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x460 100 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
91e33cd5203c4d88125941b4033b5f84bf4f01633def257ed0863b7d31e1f7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50F 553 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x783 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
e8a2dd9d2bbbf3c183a1330d009b99e08fb32191b99551cfa096b633db166338
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x88E 41553 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xAB29 147 bytes