Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c8db71c34f6315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB
MD5: cf9feeee21b93cc86446ead175e41e26 SHA-1: bd1f1282db6f1aa6c0f0eab8c110afaf7712faca SHA-256: 86c8db71c34f6315b2ad2a61d791993c3316c636cefa707d2b6a82ecc287b440
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an XFA form and an embedded script payload, which is a common technique for delivering exploits. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0, and ML classification strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, though its exact function is obscured by the PDF structure.

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
96fb0aa5a61786ef78433c09d8420519a84d8cbcac01dddc2faa91d22727ee17
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 98659 bytes