Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25a2fc62319aa093…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.4 KB
MD5: 029ed0ba806b8724e9035e87e8177ad2 SHA-1: 9e5c505af4ad414c1edd53fcef32da14b389a320 SHA-256: 25a2fc62319aa093eae625fc93d7df53db9c7a61bb0157a65b15cead18bdf6aa
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence as malicious. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it is designed to exploit a PDF vulnerability and deliver a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the primary artifact of interest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
  • 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/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_file_obj0008.bin
4da151df7d232737362b82affbf2d96d0eeb91666ce2be68f197c42c232d9030		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 15009 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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