Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90144c764aa5fc20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB
MD5: b2b6fe682b6078d52f2b1a3dab50c7af SHA-1: 292ea69761590a800ba2ea12dae54f3dfc3aa952 SHA-256: 90144c764aa5fc20982702368a8e40b2504c7ed11ae74e7c14bd57261c05e3e5
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and confirmed by ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The embedded script is likely responsible for exploiting a vulnerability within the PDF viewer to execute malicious code, potentially leading to further compromise.

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_00000246.bin
f41a54a49c108668c26a8e005254877aff46c81d81620e9a35141650d9b12565
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102040 bytes