Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f970ebdfcfaf3a9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: b3112a46583fabc96f493c21bae11e05 SHA-1: f0881b3fb57fdbaa4bb458329e6442be22bcc9ab SHA-256: f970ebdfcfaf3a9a530a6b16a68071c45700ba40f7e303e774e7cedd99a5a466
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874'. The presence of XFA forms and AcroForm buttons suggests an attempt to trigger an exploit. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
6fcbf8f6d825d6aeec22429683872568279c6d01e42eadff4430d4393b1f546c
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1467 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).