Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec3ad1f7ffbacf56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.4 KB
MD5: 41ce0789fe94c3854ddafe71063fd724 SHA-1: a19fb2f55f69eedd446c551ed3af933b915a3e6b SHA-256: ec3ad1f7ffbacf5695fce41a32370d6b50f9a36631ded7ea62b2ed7fdd3dbce4
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains an embedded script payload and triggered critical heuristics for PDF exploits and ClamAV detections. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements is also noted.

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
388ec39a032a1e772ec74f8e376f51b7b3f7fd0c7cc49219bc296992fa43169a
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18073 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely