Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 138cdacde2c63ba2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB
MD5: 2364e099229cfe1199267c46a31ac7c0 SHA-1: b83447c865e6382edc2f1e977fc048f865293b37 SHA-256: 138cdacde2c63ba2cb03cd63e64bbe2114e087a793d1b8b6c6cbdca49e2f517a
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains XFA forms with executable JavaScript, indicated by PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and PDF_EVAL heuristics. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded script likely downloads and executes a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin' artifact and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS score. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms points to a malicious document designed for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
10524c8841105d398f3e8e8c790bc322eaa76a0f71d67929337ac5d9e1752e52
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 815 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
73ec5073804e2a11b9b416ec3d0b60ddf3db9ee1c7dbbd9d2aa922ca62c8163d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4DC 80 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
faec25f2d848d65dfff82a1391c4d4adef5fe1f610ef404b5fce125db5c65505
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x577 69295 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x11471 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x11643 65 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x116CE 147 bytes