Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f44d1ab9f7eeb3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: f0340171f19f131c90207e8629247b1f SHA-1: 92ea3402cfbe90869b375087d7060a1d8ea7ccb1 SHA-256: 5f44d1ab9f7eeb3cd78bb7d4fccfecbe12192f26c5e325cb4ddc48b93d28a08d
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript within an XFA form, a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded script is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, and the presence of an embedded URL, though benign, is noted.

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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin
7732e5c4d6db80e9f72d7a77d14dd4f5481350d136ada9b9e768b34a0653712b
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12376 bytes