Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a678acc01a7113c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

159.1 KB
MD5: 07c47044aa384c976fe34b692dbf2ed3 SHA-1: f2950d42e919938f6d7d3edcebba99874857e2cd SHA-256: 3a678acc01a7113cedb2d2275a02a6eb0a0acef35828ef8a30ff3c3412c0e3fc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious JavaScript

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is flagged as a critical indicator of a malicious exploit. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of XFA forms and JavaScript exploit cluster signals suggest the file is designed to execute arbitrary code via JavaScript vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. No document body text was available for further analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • Correlated malicious PDF JavaScript signals critical PDF_CORRELATED_MALICIOUS_JS
    PDF JavaScript or auto-action content is corroborated by exploit staging, ML, or suspicious extracted-artifact findings. This correlation promotes old exploit-kit PDFs that otherwise remain in the suspicious band because each individual signal is intentionally weighted conservatively.
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/