Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 898e3297c7eaf675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.8 KB Created: 2010-11-13 13:52:29
MD5: 01a541c50d0b3e1089b52fd48f36837f SHA-1: 9f4b23f016ffa5ba74f59aa2d500ccc21cddbeab SHA-256: 898e3297c7eaf6754281a913c543b63d44688752ae9137b9ac765ef22ddfb485
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers an exploit cluster related to XFA forms, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. While no specific URLs or further payloads were directly extracted, the presence of exploit-related JavaScript points to a client-side execution attack, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/