Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bf9d146b57845a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Authoring application: saerb First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 541a4b3277bf97b307e92e9ef77e9a1b SHA-1: ff19c92c065badee213e5c13594df32ac567c379 SHA-256: 8bf9d146b57845a9b6668d06ad893be7f303758036cdaaf997272d8314e5c657
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload within a decompressed stream, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. This payload, named 'stream_001_off000002e9.js', is likely intended to be executed by the user, potentially leading to further compromise. The 'PDF_XFA' heuristic suggests the use of XFA forms, which can sometimes be leveraged to deliver embedded content. The overall confidence is moderate due to the lack of specific script content analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • PDF embedded file could not be fully decoded medium PDF_EMBEDDED_FILE_UNDECODED
    A declared PDF /EmbeddedFile stream uses filters that the scanner could not decode. The raw stream was carved for artifact triage because malformed or unsupported attachment filters can hide payload content from normal extraction.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream info 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/\ In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000002e9.js decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E9 63982 bytes
SHA-256: 90029cc13b0d7ecb538f1a9f9577fc3c287aad585e34a542e102f78bbdad475c
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).

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