Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe4b47aa5830729d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 62d950d960f91226af2088298e5ead11 SHA-1: 93dbc4ffd507e2397fe505687c9e6d9f570e2139 SHA-256: fe4b47aa5830729da316452604dc618cf1f20d23554cffd5cfbceda6eb4e9baf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' strongly indicates a known PDF exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to deliver and execute malicious code. The script logic, while partially obfuscated, appears to construct a URL and execute it, consistent with downloading a secondary payload.

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
328a0ad7e7565bdc03db43c9dd265e6fb3405fb60ed7aedd92d5ca7c6037bdc2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42623 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely