Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9360efcf5c4cda28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Authoring application: saerb
MD5: 9ed67c9d9b47a2b76ee1b2eb049046fb SHA-1: 668db3b5f32acf74e572f00c696166318595f71c SHA-256: 9360efcf5c4cda28e71a2c024cf58509ca050551e1538f624f16f74855d1c824
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. Static analysis identified an embedded JavaScript file within a PDF stream, indicating a potential delivery mechanism for further malicious activity. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000002e5.js
10d1c7f4b491bbc98a3f470e8f0eabea7c90319fe337e53a9d81a33070a4b3bb
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E5 65443 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).