Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd0fb34006049623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: ab14752c80fffb77c662e5fef60848ba SHA-1: bdde1cd9b37eaf9dbb40521323cd19f5274cf40e SHA-256: fd0fb34006049623b371c7c64e658cea70048a6d578d2a169f2bc3328db649d5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, indicating it contains an exploit. ML classification strongly supports this, with a score of 0.999995. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the PDF is designed to execute malicious code upon opening, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

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
43b270638737a029ff9e773484b1929134fe2cc27bedb49c87de269cb1bce977
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42590 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely