Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bb53395510ab66e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: f6703f8bb4750ccd4a1113303dfd7d5f SHA-1: 5eef2b186b0d5551c0f93e30d03e3be3d22daca6 SHA-256: 5bb53395510ab66eaf4612061d95ecebccca5dcfbb35c1ca5307570118f8c4b2
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of embedded JavaScript within a PDF stream, combined with XFA form elements, strongly suggests the execution of malicious code. The script's obfuscated nature and truncated content prevent a definitive analysis of its exact payload, but its likely purpose is to download and execute a second-stage exploit or malware. The benign URLs found are likely unrelated to the malicious functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low 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/
    • 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_pdf_script_0000023c.bin
8e38ac91a17d46ee5af4102eb9bfd12bc77a24492aab990ac655d10915797909
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80622 bytes