MALICIOUS
196
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.007 JavaScript
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
This PDF file exhibits multiple critical heuristic firings related to JavaScript exploits and XFA forms, strongly indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. The presence of an embedded PDF further suggests a multi-stage attack. The ML classifier also flagged this document as highly malicious. The primary IOC is the unknown reputation URL, which could be a C2 server or payload host.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975
Heuristics 7
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PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTERPDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
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Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGEA valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
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ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEXHex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTONPDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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://www.bitstream.com
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xfa/promoted-desc/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.7/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.6/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
Extracted artifacts 6
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000070c8.bine31f8c8507e52f29008d946a00becde9f839e34cb108985ce66167bf881adafa |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70C8 | 8084 bytes |
font_10_sfnt_off000149fa.bin422bc5698ba5d9d4818f6a2d8b3abca2f723e713b44a15c390139d2c976a1388 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149FA | 65932 bytes |
font_11_sfnt_off0001e85c.bin7e24ee16c8b09ee74d61445f29c3c0a95abfdf17fc1008606394f159dbd0c106 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E85C | 65932 bytes |
font_12_sfnt_off000286ba.bin57e24925bc6bdb98d38e8b4ba3b87f80f75c5e49ea9a522486790d7dc6848549 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x286BA | 65932 bytes |
font_13_sfnt_off000324e1.bin1f068d668b316fcb46f0801be00137fb749cc7fda5ca15e442829d6c303d8f99 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x324E1 | 65932 bytes |
polyglot_child_pdf_off0003ca8f.pdf5ebd49640d4e7b6cd5e87697500ded114f09f0609a5562311930403a46fcea86 |
polyglot-child-pdf | Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x3CA8F | 514725 bytes |
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