PDF malware analysis — malicious · 685b0b58eb097dd3

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.3 KB

MD5: 8e427754cb34d0cac12b264594207633 SHA-1: d822f9f60e687da727f755a540a78efda67ab06f SHA-256: 685b0b58eb097dd31943ac72c7a37cdf909206211b7d6ed8e7ca0b727fe6ad01

146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains XFA forms and embedded scripts, triggering high-severity heuristics for unescape calls and risky executable script content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The presence of XFA and JavaScript points to exploitation for client execution, often delivered via spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules.
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `1c68d9a62d9685b1710732fe9247ebe4e16fefc1c095650ca41c7626103af8d1`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	26175 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.