Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 993033f9cbb91d2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.0 KB
MD5: 9da2f9c8aabcc06c25a5fd4540cf9798 SHA-1: 7881f3e744910de73eb93cdfb6aa2b178188b396 SHA-256: 993033f9cbb91d2aee37e7802d3dc6e5924d99d2e9f9a782b3744770ac393956
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious intent, including embedded files and scripts. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of an embedded script payload suggests an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, could be part of a larger lure or command and control infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xB02 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xBB4 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0121.bin
7e9843b96446af14d46934fc1aad73dce50b506261fa53b2a043297e53b4a22a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 121 at offset 0xDCE 65855 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x3287 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x3334 77 bytes