Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 593db1518991c823…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.0 KB
MD5: 0671eef8f15d2249c6e7671358454a2c SHA-1: 1086024f3dc40a83c2ac7adb369fb0be31d01251 SHA-256: 593db1518991c823bf809e49dd69ea05587d5507ba2f56c63fc6df4ba3b201fe
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While the document body and scripts are heavily obfuscated, the presence of these elements suggests an attempt to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded URLs are not directly actionable for malicious intent.

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/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_obj0009.bin
ea53d8d72dd82c0757db6bcaf17d54c7d4d4f7ea8d28c6b9d5fca8a5b33a047b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0xD5 12534 bytes