Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7839132698b4fc38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB
MD5: f9fc1c6743184c5a2c25a0963a2cc209 SHA-1: 58d560d60af4f225d82c854a608837645a6f918c SHA-256: 7839132698b4fc38568812ffdc351d540ff4e4b9c21eaa2ad34734080ac4fbd4
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The ML classifier also flagged it as highly malicious. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests an exploit targeting PDF viewer vulnerabilities to deliver a malicious payload. The exact nature of the script's execution is not fully detailed, but the overall pattern indicates a malicious exploit delivery.

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
  • 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.
  • 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_pdf_script_00000240.bin
bbe8779769197118b5e18cfe804e7e17fce050df4eadf72bea83e30a7eb8ccc4
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x240 51322 bytes