Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2570160353f07073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB
MD5: e245846685a354128c210e84c6761f68 SHA-1: 00a269903b37ae71adf1fadb76b9d983c13aa374 SHA-256: 2570160353f07073717eed8eb343c15e0b3f0d8c927b67efc3ba3cbadba13115
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded script payload and triggers XFA form heuristics, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit, though its specific actions are not detailed in the provided evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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.
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000026c.bin
9944db3c8ca3272e7bf8908098737cbae08050cf3b1669123fb1d92a260ba7d7
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 98655 bytes