Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 332a0d30d32243d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB
MD5: 317088d2c35b83263f6cef7e136a3792 SHA-1: 16dd29051ff4efa6534f8948d42e2c7cc560847d SHA-256: 332a0d30d32243d55d67b6dcb1647c08420dbc85b724d2fa100d363defd77f8f
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, strongly indicating malicious intent. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with a very high probability of being malicious. The embedded script appears to be obfuscated JavaScript that likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, though the exact URL is not directly reconstructible from the provided snippet.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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/xci/
    • 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
6659247a4d83dafedfb2a27c8cf175db3e6a740dba8b286960cba9684cd8bd11
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD5 12852 bytes