Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93e1e6d1b88170eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB
MD5: 09e03c73ba9e554ffab1cd43495b501d SHA-1: 2494857ed81b12dfddab7915083e9d969bbab4e4 SHA-256: 93e1e6d1b88170eb3a023977a229d2156f40939fa28fc303aea7b9f28719c591
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers XFA form heuristics, indicating an exploit attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit, leading to a malicious outcome.

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_0000026c.bin
41e7c4c471e481c758834a1c71bf61cb2328eb58060ecb5540ff3a831fbadf64
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 99515 bytes