Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e22277149b6f5c61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: e11758647cb10208d4ae22fe4a0f4870 SHA-1: ceec20a4bdbc6b3352647ba5c75e926b2e9da87d SHA-256: e22277149b6f5c61768bdfe2348453bb68ab386704c6aa97b1c27781185b39a5
188 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 heuristics, 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 deliver a secondary malicious artifact. The ML classifier output of 0.999995 strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely related to exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code or download further stages.

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
4d881731f76cc3e47599a6e8d5bcd1eba347ce8b1f4f891bb61c8568c093d65a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42522 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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