Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea5e23343384aa19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 99c35a6907aa9a68482731096e5004f3 SHA-1: 007117e129b5b7603f167590a3bc1bec61261906 SHA-256: ea5e23343384aa196f6439adfeab3ebbcc85e5aa656f1c25e0a289f914a68bb4
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple high-severity heuristics and ClamAV detections. The embedded script is likely responsible for dropping a secondary malicious artifact, as suggested by the 'EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV' heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
7127136df36e63680f72072498720815aaf480db09ff38d188242f09af3c6b09
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14173 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely