PDF malware analysis — malicious · 93b08e55977ec613

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.1 KB

MD5: a89e39addf314a961f4300e5b5ba6a60 SHA-1: b793477046a049caad72e7f48ba1b643cf320ff1 SHA-256: 93b08e55977ec6130317d2aaf604eb3203bd2ed66a36e6bc80ce32304b53029a

74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and is flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with the document's structure and may be a lure or part of the exploit chain. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging PDF features to execute malicious code.

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
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xCF3	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xDA5	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0111.bin` `97707bc8eac9cb11ea12d41b740c3c6c786f33b3db1f33bcc72058a17c6ae706`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 111 at offset 0xFBF	57042 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x1EEA	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x1F97	77 bytes

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