Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95399949cea8f380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.8 KB
MD5: 0ad0b6fb3dad53aaa495d1176675697e SHA-1: 22611ca8ff4caaa9e8524b9d9cbe1ecfeab71341 SHA-256: 95399949cea8f38084d27da3de34d259c77a83d054a8b80ec69beb0c0818ff3b
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact functionality is obscured. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further suggests a complex malicious structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9799

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_000002da.bin
7394b6a43b24a92b736eb51ef174cdd532fa28eeb4a69d38e3c48f0867c3cf90
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x2DA 14232 bytes