Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb50d1365da43c0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 210951b0e62a0bc9abfc3dbc71529d17 SHA-1: 68727bc3f3b4b0dc2161997ba4fecfb1447cc90e SHA-256: fb50d1365da43c0cf01b09340795b86fd6872a778f6682c45dd31fdc3008d2b2
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' is the primary IOC.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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/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_file_obj0008.bin
6da747538c45a981d11a47bbabf8b49c761e04773139d878e3bd7709a32ecb06
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42752 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely