Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06aff7856a4e259e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.2 KB
MD5: d5c0a69a3e4b2efc5b6bcfc04b7e2d50 SHA-1: 59900a73cafbe856f6540192df115f260a618618 SHA-256: 06aff7856a4e259e4d9680bafc6a3b08d4b360ac3114359e6f23de7de5277122
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded XFA form and script payload strongly suggests the document is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded JavaScript, though heavily obfuscated, likely serves to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low 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 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_pdf_script_00000184.bin
379b4b3b11fe128405f65e8e7c1010fb75805f42a0b6b7501c40bb83abe44ff6
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x184 2567 bytes