Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52927145a6fd8fe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB
MD5: 2644284d44c9f7e2a4aac3b9ffb8070e SHA-1: 335f0bc4c88bc9b3842dcd85ea33a2d802577b5c SHA-256: 52927145a6fd8fe1c396679cc797b3e845db5f460121c283b40a607c396ef8d2
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence as malicious. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting an attempt to exploit a PDF vulnerability. The embedded URLs, while mostly benign or unknown, are part of the document's structure. The ML classifier's high score and the embedded script payload strongly indicate a malicious intent to deliver further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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/
    • 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
79a24c859f3e74d3ea138e7036c070d8832d10150d0d625c1318c42d75f1e804
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD5 12840 bytes