Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d3afdfd068a7bc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB
MD5: 2084ba99c54423226eaa0fddb90c4492 SHA-1: 60a8436632c3653713d6be31cc211600ae9da277 SHA-256: 3d3afdfd068a7bc760e39b5df049795c9ac4976c5ea8820afd7277e98a3f2b8c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML classifier score. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload. The presence of XFA suggests an exploit targeting Adobe Reader or similar software.

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_0000023c.bin
940cbad5520e199fa7942fa9edf08fb3f82929042a71187d335ce3c6d067b4e8
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80459 bytes