Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9e5c2ce14604dd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 21b617aa1bffe1345e92a93114c55758 SHA-1: ff7326b6496a29c3b30b907b72a1d257870b43f4 SHA-256: f9e5c2ce14604dd97957114c50a5397babcd710cebbee8584a038d41d3a7ffe0
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file contains a high-severity XFA form with executable script content, flagged by multiple heuristics including ClamAV. The script is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability within the XFA processing engine, leading to the execution of a malicious payload. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0014.bin' is also flagged by ClamAV, indicating it is part of the malicious chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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/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
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
a151abeef4e4283f3ebc8cc5820798704ff39f829922daea211beca68fa7a687		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 689 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
97314d9231379623057a8a77eeb79f9354bacffa50753a0f63b9e87e8d67dbf2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x449 186 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
a23d608abd16351932594cd2cc6f1261c6e6d29a020db987150eb014d5275963		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x54E 382 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x717 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
22a7a1805edeca2347a7a05b4ec19a3a991c9db2affcd27699a4d613aeb3aa08		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x822 40932 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA850 68 bytes

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