Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 292511b7d805205f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB
MD5: aa0924b7c915600756d2c5e7482ac401 SHA-1: 93eff78bb9ef4f7dfc64ad242283ddabce6ca8cb SHA-256: 292511b7d805205f2af64ceb5807a8296d5cf2d7842b0f9dfabed9d8183b9d1a
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and XFA form suggests the file is designed to leverage PDF vulnerabilities for code execution. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though its exact functionality is obscured.

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
77f7bf27a9455fd916b47e92b87e74182fddb39ce6948ce44db1778266b842c2
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 98657 bytes