Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7edc687828405c2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: e00f837df8fc5bb95223af8912db126d SHA-1: e877281b2152d8cef189efbd7e8a3f8e7e48595a SHA-256: 7edc687828405c2c35c8fb75c94ba1a1889901ee4528ebb08a2a65956e119df1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0) and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload strongly suggests an exploit attempt. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though its exact functionality could not be fully determined due to obfuscation.

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_0000023c.bin
b5b97141a0150ed0ecc6722a7490b25dc80ff3039cb9f69897933e66b1abfec5
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80622 bytes