Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58c8ce46ed49dc39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.9 KB
MD5: f6a4fbeec22e79a65f332ef72fa3f609 SHA-1: 320fb4c0103950778dae9fe7f000564e93e1d59f SHA-256: 58c8ce46ed49dc39945f76109654a846d7dadedbca6fe0c2b1eaeeaa28061feb
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and XFA form, suggesting an attempt to execute malicious code. While no specific script content was provided for analysis, the embedded script marker and ML classification strongly suggest the PDF is designed to deliver a secondary payload or exploit a vulnerability. The embedded URLs are likely related to the XFA form structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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_000002dc.bin
2ab68aee269a390e42c368b1232d6efc1fed7348da00fcdb4bae242e6442b2b5
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x2DC 21350 bytes