Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02ca20d81c2a919e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.6 KB First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f8d4f5e58b8508b524c7a031b73931e2 SHA-1: f07f57265a75fa95a49db13210e757db1d113062 SHA-256: 02ca20d81c2a919e19530119ea19f3e3d3f9dbc5b5ddc1f6ee15fc5b858feb0d
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains a malformed stream with embedded script content, indicated by PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests an attempt to deliver a secondary payload. The benign URLs are likely decoys or standard XFA references.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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 script payload in PDF stream info 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/ In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x78 5065 bytes
SHA-256: d21a5a547266c164a82c2615a4303a8f8785e200780d87ce0edf3f5f35e3528b
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).

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