Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f56bff660030cc66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB
MD5: 8a5c5d1af60f177c16a66d1a05edbdca SHA-1: e345444713a98508626ca2829385c3d419dbcb95 SHA-256: f56bff660030cc6663911bde149830bf7b2fd4e7ae8eef1012af6b2ced401b78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detections indicate this PDF file is malicious, specifically identified as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a malicious payload to the user.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
cbddea755094d0ff15ecfad1ad79455881c616d8f29b0edf6ab2e3b3c1a0842a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42174 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely