Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74566b949b46cf58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 78b7959125b9dda956a88aa2b4767213 SHA-1: 314e41bc99fb9548efbfd25daa49f3cdc39a4980 SHA-256: 74566b949b46cf588f885664d2105797d9ec5ac6f76af6f18cc2ab95fe81e63a
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 an XFA form strongly suggests the script is intended to execute malicious code. The script's content, though partially truncated, appears to be constructing a complex string, likely for obfuscation or to form a URL or command for a second-stage download and execution.

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
9977183e2ca2421d9871beac3c4d92e035463a4550119fed45fb1ce7cd7956f3
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12362 bytes