Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8928b2453888b2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB
MD5: edfaab93f75c4a74bf778bd6363a004f SHA-1: 269fc88dbbafad24163841b8cfc50dae3beed2c1 SHA-256: f8928b2453888b2ff77f7823c79eeccb924afe47dc77434cfd079375227a2129
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-severity heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious PDF. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or deliver a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF's structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_pdf_script_00000246.bin
183cb0b1f33681a7d3aaecaf1ad9d49b5b71088c7a0694edbeaa605048454b11
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 83835 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely