Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 467fbf49f6489131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.2 KB First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 642a02915818f151f0d590e4cf154c09 SHA-1: 487d3dd6d11c7931804ee1754ab508c6377a6c2b SHA-256: 467fbf49f64891316836435c7d6f054982efaba09c67900907df8a0d09106cf1
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of containing an embedded script payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. This suggests the document is designed to deliver and execute malicious code. The presence of an embedded file further supports this, likely serving as the payload. The exact nature of the script could not be determined due to its obfuscated or truncated nature, leading to a moderate confidence score.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • 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/1.0\ 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 0xEA 13081 bytes
SHA-256: b079cb7fc5c5601a802d0b76de57e55fa3f93b3fc915b2f64a093716f8e71bbe

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