Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4e9f19a29f9766f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: ee5a23f068984c1a35129385465055f2 SHA-1: 71f71c08bf88eb5a66ff035ae57cdfaf9f6db099 SHA-256: e4e9f19a29f9766fba65db8797580e38f19b29e26e56d07c5be1183fefa6e0d9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains malicious content. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests a multi-stage attack. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is likely the secondary payload. The document body content is highly obfuscated and appears to be part of the exploit mechanism rather than user-facing text.

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
b6995ec90a2f3238e9c0926390d45d363a91f9c6d2cc91a5a2c9db74637fb917		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43174 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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