Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 121ee9e0b80403fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

637.1 KB
MD5: 8243d93e864f4983cbd669dce85abc70 SHA-1: ed20d11de40b549dbb0eb840075fe62e9e396fb9 SHA-256: 121ee9e0b80403fc01f711a3a5f43d55ec034c784db7c11243abc2833b37cac5
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, specifically indicating the presence of JavaScript exploits targeting XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. While the specific family is not identifiable, the attack pattern suggests a common method for delivering malware via malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF 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.
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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/3.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.8/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/