Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ffd0ca1191b0ef6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.1 KB
MD5: 990a37e78a16af1ba67061d0978b06cb SHA-1: 322670695a13a34e9f2066e0af73038c946ddfa4 SHA-256: 1ffd0ca1191b0ef6421d1eac74f004acd39a76890b8b8b0fa6b79cccf6c379ee
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains embedded files and scripts, indicating it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded URL suggests a potential command and control or download vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 5

  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium 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 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
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xB02 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xBB4 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0121.bin
81a955a8f4265d072f92c0cdd2174b32b9c0cd620ebfd13857abfcd658b3f2a3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 121 at offset 0xDCE 66488 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x32E7 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x3394 77 bytes