Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebc4e0b9f18c7ed3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 66ed10888955f11a447f0461cab052ab SHA-1: d66c5b8e9a6ede14fbcd8d6f606b98fc3347907c SHA-256: ebc4e0b9f18c7ed30732b6cf6ceddcad6b21c086da968574c8c86666265152c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and has been flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability within PDF viewers to execute malicious code. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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
df94831dc94deb7ec7e119408be400e75a8741503796d5208f78dd0794e1c3b9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43163 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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