Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fada06f18516b4c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: 893ca592854c1c4990fb7880c3f2cc09 SHA-1: 17d42718aa31b3f8dcbb38c974a87b33005044c8 SHA-256: fada06f18516b4c871d5b95d9ec5d146a8cb49a9400464554aa848bdc5f7b47d
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. It contains an embedded script payload and utilizes XFA forms, indicating an attempt to exploit PDF reader vulnerabilities. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing malicious code, potentially downloading additional payloads.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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_0000023c.bin
7cb40e8d76281267a952868f55dffaf6e1d0f617c487c1ace1a06f2960403246		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80620 bytes

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