Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94e43eee105f4573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 2fcfeb5255b24848541089ddf884db2a SHA-1: 0f72fa634b1fcec05731692036fb9fde3dc98a9b SHA-256: 94e43eee105f457320d894668a453f3da9e051b2c2051c8456cdbfec2fb5d1b7
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identifying an embedded script payload. The presence of XFA form elements and an embedded script suggests an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin
c01d7f69ab6370d2891cef737bf62cbaca5e760ccd7a244d34e8ad0cfdd1ca38
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12328 bytes