MALICIOUS
88
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious File
The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic and confirmed by the 'embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin' artifact. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for exploiting a vulnerability within the PDF viewer to download and execute a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'unknown_exploit_score'. The presence of an embedded URL, though not directly malicious in reputation, is a common vector for such attacks.
Heuristics 4
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF 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.
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.binfe3ba400412deb1237db4928595383dd4d555f54c6c7dd960428c417951e6568 |
pdf-embedded-script | PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 | 12458 bytes |
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