Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb9a598988f11bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 03ca3e28f968c89364f08a6bc0563a1c SHA-1: 4832e4bd28a822909e34ebaeadf81a3eb9b5ec31 SHA-256: eb9a598988f11bf0f2a8dc65fa9db3530b7bf5b39a76035e472220febcf51d2d
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-19748. Static analysis revealed an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The PDF XFA form heuristic also fired, suggesting potential exploitation of form-related vulnerabilities. The embedded file itself is a strong indicator of malicious intent, likely to execute further stages of an attack.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-19748 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-19748
  • 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
  • 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
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
d3c5f2794351b05c1e4b3029e5967d170f8e3e4670084365f0d317df2f985496
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x88 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).