Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fff4c933be8f77ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 1c7394a752be32b971a33f9ccbb3135c SHA-1: 3756eeff60af62689e8f5f8874cc99947f295ac7 SHA-256: fff4c933be8f77ee40a59b1f2e6d0fd71d316014d404122bc3e7f2ff4e09579e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The ML classifier strongly flags it as malicious. The document body content appears to be obfuscated script fragments rather than user-readable text.

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
40bc236b04b7ef612d545f8663dff4ff03e389e66ad44507ab5616e8bf607f77
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42688 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely