Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22e8d262ee2d232f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.5 KB First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 70f7fb570a0573629906ede59836a08d SHA-1: eea68b93996a667cf4c0cdd75db658951410caea SHA-256: 22e8d262ee2d232fe30e201b341f4764f0c974e34d7ade8b5eb85ec12fb8538e
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. The presence of XFA form elements further suggests a potential attack vector. While the specific script content is not fully detailed, the heuristics point towards an embedded script designed to execute malicious code, likely for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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 info 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/ In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 13092 bytes
SHA-256: 05bfbcec17b24fa05a91cbb5ca656c6f75d44b17b9fb79393e1d99ea393b622d

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