Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7885fb193dacd049…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB
MD5: e031fb0cc5858c6549b5c24479be97f3 SHA-1: 5da2f0fc60ea31099fc17d77ac0c2cac0ada3658 SHA-256: 7885fb193dacd0494a87bbf435ad2ce8d14a011d54e2e58e600d35b88a70a323
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the presence of an embedded binary artifact. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically targeting PDF exploits. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, leading to the detection of Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0.

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_0000026c.bin
6d7c9727cb819bbc715828ec00d571a9fe36aa4b2056c506a9e22dd6383579c9
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 98655 bytes