Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 804b31f33c1f6662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: e452cc06967fa5b73d98ff7de709ba22 SHA-1: f1e3e5da5d44501c0f49d7f4865e665ef4536b1b SHA-256: 804b31f33c1f66624b27af8754e54ce210aa4f5281ab448db7eb3ca8776cf801
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload indicates an exploit attempt. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact functionality is obscured by the PDF structure. The benign reputation of the Adobe and XFA URLs suggests they are not directly involved in the malicious activity.

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
2281c2416cdfe2f4185f5b9c75261edd3d6ca90f1ef7433ddac2239d1513ee4a
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80624 bytes