Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb68f5ba5f4734e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.8 KB
MD5: fce1b3db6565b1e1fe5163860b515847 SHA-1: 6016e17ae9089224569c0e6b773b2be268d1d738 SHA-256: 9eb68f5ba5f4734e6efe94e92e5f0eff9e1fcc95fe6bec906b82a1dd3df638cf
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier. The XFA form detected by the PDF_XFA heuristic suggests a complex document structure often used to hide malicious content. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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_00000246.bin
dbf634bab4c216f7efa94df4a40d8f7b963431ed092b6df0e709ee45574557ee
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102488 bytes