PDF malware analysis — malicious · 0eaa36f898ae05c1

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.5 KB

MD5: 442500d4f80aaa3a95bcbacb95fe3e26 SHA-1: 7bdd137367debe1a7d94bccc244bcb5dea70fe9d SHA-256: 0eaa36f898ae05c13f8ce3f5208f1aa4da660fb92e962e494c5743ecf49fa5ed

146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains XFA forms and embedded JavaScript, which is obfuscated and uses `eval()` to execute. The JavaScript function `hx` decodes a hex string by subtracting 72 from each character's ASCII value, revealing the actual payload. This indicates the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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.
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/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `eaf1b2bc6653ccc7d73857a2dfa38623d62ac7a9a1b07b28aeb72b112a242806`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x52	1165 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`deobfuscated.js` `a5fea2e4eddac8fb9ff20162598d1837e6eafb9ae9e7a830f9f4175cc5f4bf91`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	2280 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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