Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9111552f51a76f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.4 KB First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7c1cca76244d9ef9b7d55b4fd4aab55b SHA-1: ac101458b7f33d79006459be02e4f6bc47d5e21e SHA-256: a9111552f51a76f8bb1fd92112e018ce8442bbd8c52b2d7d46d590288a8a8988
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits suspicious characteristics, including embedded files and scripts, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. The presence of an embedded script payload suggests an attempt to execute malicious code. While the document body contains garbled text, the overall structure points towards a potential exploit or payload delivery mechanism. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity but are part of the document's structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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 script payload in PDF stream info 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/ In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 15009 bytes
SHA-256: fc30b6548687ce7ce2f733d0954b1cb8abd90cd9be482c91c27398c6e623a5d2
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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