Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c3fc6aed65c3112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB
MD5: e815125a6caadd9c1e884100cfe8b436 SHA-1: 814b9b00ff217d8e08bac30fef701f0efa0d42d7 SHA-256: 9c3fc6aed65c311273ea7e29f765b0bb0377dccdcec78a6ea247a47428222f98
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious document. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload suggests an exploit is being delivered. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, although its exact function cannot be determined due to obfuscation.

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
f96eb28d340de7fd808c3b8982cc805c7446a08679b4b791139d7247cd2cd4eb
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 99843 bytes