Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0eab73890858c1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: ac45176ccda695986a3c9f02e011d37b SHA-1: 5b7febe4fdba43da26dfe9144f70eb2bfc7227cf SHA-256: a0eab73890858c1d6fc71b7a58f56aa1df45976f5d1abb118277daa66b84a7ff
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded script content, flagged by heuristics as a malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script likely attempts to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader to execute arbitrary code, potentially leading to further compromise. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code, further supporting the script execution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
eef6f2b6616931ab1f8305edea04f34e9a4fce61bb900c78bb7fe53df1e650df
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11611 bytes