Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a04390ee037480cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.8 KB
MD5: 0556dadb94ad6d38337e2e70cef28132 SHA-1: e01682b8adde19350cf0a2f3b015e1887f86faec SHA-256: a04390ee037480cc0da7123f4d7a9fff5167acc31d5a387a4adada61ea486c73
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, suggesting it's designed to execute malicious code. The XFA form and embedded file indicators further support a complex attack vector. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the document's 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_000002dc.bin
ef7cf7c8a1210897d1ea401365a679396982cde2d1ec85c89fbf50470c0fadd1
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x2DC 14230 bytes