Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5157146e454145f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: c40ccec60f33a0396d35f34e14a08c41 SHA-1: b1fe81fd0d9e6762293357c762c90a396edd2d1c SHA-256: e5157146e454145f4d1df390dd5ff97f8e63542a0d29e71bb67e9dbdd28c0510
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. The presence of XFA forms and AcroForm buttons suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded artifact, a decompressed PDF stream, likely contains the exploit code. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
7de52cba39d91a5f58a7b5a0d4225f8432779482c9ccf715d76fbc66c64d01cd
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1450 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).