Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaf295489261052f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: af7b31d9727dc22b252d8563a33d7224 SHA-1: 1589593f13ea228c98cf19397550c6411718589a SHA-256: eaf295489261052f547ce5e3894698cec83d2219effa26746738ba586c9c147b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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 strongly suggests it's designed to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' further supports this, pointing towards an exploit targeting PDF vulnerabilities.

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
d42ad7bc18ac08d2225e8bb860f6b11ea2e95a32e423d0d91458a1e1e58db87a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42853 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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