Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec2e75ddbd9a6b7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: 8083b964774cdf533fe530d194304aa2 SHA-1: 0dfd6ff8004c278f9a4f717b5c38951fa831470a SHA-256: ec2e75ddbd9a6b7ff173f2beea20a36fb56266ef4b75a59c6df69b2432cae98f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' indicates this PDF is malicious and likely exploits a known vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this assessment. The embedded artifact is also flagged by ClamAV, reinforcing the malicious nature of the file.

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
95a6598ef44269fe3b30555b9d324d33345b3f0f5244c4d6ecdaca44f2f865f0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42582 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely