Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5362609682e52fdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.8 KB
MD5: bd3872c9e491e81ae8b8fa74434bf77f SHA-1: 9fb6fda4550ea13f978133725dae39a9b54992b5 SHA-256: 5362609682e52fdb78ed2460c65ee5ffbe83b1cfb71ca4d5939947cdfb8b6537
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, indicating an attempt to deliver a payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests a complex attack vector, likely aimed at exploiting PDF reader vulnerabilities or delivering further malicious content. The ML classifier's output strongly supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9799

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/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_000002da.bin
ff6cdb8929ce9febe0cdae4777f5fd0ce488f4d8f74002652d2dc74767c64a38
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x2DA 14230 bytes