Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 396a5db5536f11a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 41744cd2469a8b27495f7c7fb74f88de SHA-1: a5844b21fc458c9ec53f071c5c01447e5c1d9296 SHA-256: 396a5db5536f11a56f868dd2baa1d26547dc8e1e0ea113a2bc05236afb7c1853
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code that appears to be attempting to decode and execute further content. The embedded file artifact further suggests a malicious payload is present. The exact intent of the script is difficult to ascertain due to obfuscation, but it is likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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/xci/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 0xD5 12821 bytes
SHA-256: d413fefd962e9cbd41cd74f4e4fa7ace4ca41db175824a0f5aa7ecb6b6040504

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