Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6b233b8156a01cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 3856ac789ac9b6d3c589f4dc05705043 SHA-1: 0c0ce34f887cc2ba401a2bc18abd9197f5ac9ba2 SHA-256: e6b233b8156a01cd38d22f2f1bac62c21dd4c9d6ff79f12b498e8ecfd5dfc7e8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836'. It contains embedded script payloads and embedded files, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
d8bf209df925551dd0aa4b42a34d338da57307fd294744be28d8a5f1aa878d1f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 683 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x458 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
39a846361958d80b0606399bd5a64f168dafc86ec3b1fe623943efe1f8ab8f40
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x500 424 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6F3 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
646e432441a75ca0776877f3c84da2622ccfd63e75b893cacb1c9351e80e40fb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8C5 40893 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8CC 147 bytes