Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff44bd04c04f90f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 7eb4541d7d77cc755ed382e1c703496a SHA-1: ac399859e5db36b83326edcd3cf726ccfdc4cc46 SHA-256: ff44bd04c04f90f7024bf7474db87860724d9b822a7b74953a65a2b761b310c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded content and a script payload, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings including 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION'. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' strongly suggests a known exploit. The embedded script, though obfuscated, is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload. The benign URLs are not considered indicators of compromise.

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
14e7b458daf57f88a4662b51cb90c18de6fe9811280adda9bdfadbde5f7e8193
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42808 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely