Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1a846d9bd7ede5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 6793b569eabc1dbbb9a8737f982b39eb SHA-1: 12136d1fff7f82f56f7460cba24316257f1f8029 SHA-256: f1a846d9bd7ede5f493afa9e829d2b503f1831f20548f4e0cbfaad193e54d423
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and an embedded script payload, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. ClamAV detections confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809 on an extracted artifact. The embedded script likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
43688df44aa838ae11f39c1419e55550a6c4d822c1714ef9a9d0fda57651648d
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14297 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely