Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f96651862042a24f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.8 KB
MD5: 8c18257d57618d0dd87d183008503062 SHA-1: e03b4c1c3ce2bf7d6497128a5a86841264a6db87 SHA-256: f96651862042a24f01ee8f47536682fedf8888aafa54357fb191849ac12c15ec
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers XFA form heuristics, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. ClamAV detections confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and an extracted artifact as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The embedded script likely serves as a dropper for further malicious activity.

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
9e24130183bcb461fa3174e3187c9f72224dd4bb714d19ad9791420d2a3469d3
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14457 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely