Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e783f3e5302f550c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 41d3ed3677aab5386abea7f49486fb26 SHA-1: 6c5fe65e6f7667dbccb4dd221926ecb784e64ec5 SHA-256: e783f3e5302f550c709f3e0877bacb91286ec45deb3734e31a28ad42aa6fb26e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The presence of XFA forms with executable scripts indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader to execute malicious code. The embedded scripts likely download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • 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
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
4e4ef7e83bf656e94756e8e90fc1a1891375e72691ebf96c16bc4446b4fc7895
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
97314d9231379623057a8a77eeb79f9354bacffa50753a0f63b9e87e8d67dbf2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x447 186 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
9b1d1a30a7bce8f9cc7ce26469439e22f2d67bc4c9a0eb492d48bab83e10a4d7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x54C 384 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x717 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
54bb2145de53ddc91ace68b4643cc062053ae50406d8e8826175b4a8230dcf58
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x822 40941 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA859 68 bytes