Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96ab5af5d7d18632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.2 KB Authoring application: 42.141.63.126.104.82.71.126.104.80.72.154.145.132.147.92.70.70.90.133.142.145.71.136.92.79.90.136.91.126.104.80.77.139.132.141.134.147.135.90.136.74.92.81.72.154.129.92.126.104.80.77.146.148.129.146.1 (via 48.141.130.147.136.142.141.63.126.137.82.71.72.154.126.137.83.92.126.139.84.71.72.90.136.133.71.126.137.83.91.88.79.79.79.72.154.126.137.84.92.70.142.74.148.96.114.137.134.134.134.138.143.148.107.83.9)
MD5: bbc189aad30a2877b41d2353102baece SHA-1: 73a372d54690681a77f77a46d3488a1eda4d098e SHA-256: 96ab5af5d7d18632699308ebcf7556fd79a7fd74c2b717b0c1de82f3b4cf14ba
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains an XFA form with a risky executable script, as indicated by multiple high-severity heuristics. The script is embedded and likely serves as a payload, potentially downloading and executing further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The presence of an embedded file object (embedded_file_obj0043.bin) further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 8

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x3988 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
b40a217a8d9b8d3671cc3874c550d30941b93ca6dde99995d43921dede579865		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x3A3A 1183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
f8f1835bfee99f1de38ba2d61f82060d16ad1cdadfc50fd6a03b4489ad79e01d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x3C8A 1718 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x4053 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
ce4a3f07835c725838e55947d6b1f21771e0ad8084ee86d0890ecc12bd5231fd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x4115 2427 bytes
font_00_cff_off000044e5.bin
062eede2d0cc5d3972869dc7e2f2f9f01d1d1b3756b715c8252f06948ce99ae2		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x44E5 1192 bytes

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