Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45fd84877c4dcffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.4 KB
MD5: ef2c9a83565294418e3f301a112fcf30 SHA-1: f1fe46bc71087ea8246760abd1102c44faf5fe31 SHA-256: 45fd84877c4dcffc80f71da12e905f78f9459d17348884a91e8b4c3d8c20315f
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, strongly indicating malicious intent. The ML classifier assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is likely the second-stage payload. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of embedded malicious content is sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
7404a6d808a75700d24be44f2c566803541c5f88dd113d0fd7405edb0ba04315
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 15009 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).