Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e257d6fd52b62411…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: 77626bbee75d2fe2d67ee3984dc0abd9 SHA-1: dd4af374d0df1e7f6f4e0ecb889d47e26202fd1d SHA-256: e257d6fd52b624114b7a5344af4c6bc6ad065e9f5d12c513f36c4bc051440d29
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_XFA and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. ClamAV detections confirm the malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769 on an extracted artifact. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit, leading to the delivery of a malicious payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_pdf_script_0000023e.bin
63b1dc2a852083e414bdba5c48ca5edda7c9a898e030aceece96c0a73a628e90
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23E 80555 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely