Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 096d647443535d2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 8b10c67d4938f1b9ea017277039d507b SHA-1: e7fa4a3e90800eb0e27345c671abff027c989b61 SHA-256: 096d647443535d2e218e54f8e1f0cfe32effcd75413b5700315431a4fba3de61
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, for containing an embedded script payload and exploiting XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript, though obfuscated, appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded URL, even if confirmed benign, suggests a communication channel was intended.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin
0ac20c4d1ce17f6660fb8b166e3ebc6bee00c832cbb41cd96d31e3f398cf8e08
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12342 bytes