Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82a71f0ced46a5cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB
MD5: 4323db4e32f9836b36f00533f8dd5a98 SHA-1: baa44a606fca30d418411284e0badc63f00129bd SHA-256: 82a71f0ced46a5cf3580c7d560d6c16a6fadc79e0a5efb2b957833951c4c85b6
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 an embedded JavaScript payload within an XFA form strongly suggests the script is designed to execute malicious code, likely downloading a second-stage payload. The benign URLs found do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the exploit and embedded script.

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://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
062d5b8d379ce5afa75a3bed42682834142d4428363eeee3b1d878556fca6d7a
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80534 bytes