Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3f6d57ec74c058a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 01df92b5d88b5746f2ca8e1bfc0c9534 SHA-1: bea174aafe8c273e6c573f07ee56049b30ea92d8 SHA-256: f3f6d57ec74c058ad72ce1e0e449a7cc4a260488287248dee2d9180efb25edea
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834). It contains embedded files and scripts, indicating it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests a complex exploit chain.

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
c7cbeece9c3857b8101edf63afe3e32516d02080db32ab214346fd62b2b3d75c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 691 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1c5b7971dff586207e8235b49916e2677297f244f218ae7d19c6ac9623332af8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x460 100 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
5bdadfd8ef85acbc01304bf59dbc6c1f4ca5cd5edf95581be57dc03a1791ce01
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50F 549 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x77F 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
c07105583fc030aa4497168ab102fb2999d34b3fe06c9bd679cf56e36d8f528e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x88A 40754 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA806 147 bytes