Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eea16bf2f78081de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: f4dd5319c85b2ef56a885769827c824e SHA-1: 2e7886a88c7ea3445f07b1de921400b2b74ab39d SHA-256: eea16bf2f78081de16a6693d0de3a43e917b62dfad85e9051fad4532e63009fb
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834'. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files strongly suggests that this PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with a very high probability of being malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
7fad3563511d3f3c05edc5bad49de949427b8534315deb3974df78bd63fe49e5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45F 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
0db508d2032d51855f3b7c3f8a894784301638ff1ae4e9fa7baad3e353624f92
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50D 582 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x79E 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
c393615ed617a97acbcbe930053a4ee2e3ea6eb3101f9c58cacb6e78dd429f7e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A9 40678 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA7D9 68 bytes