Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae7b804a38509e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.7 KB First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d5711a0f2ec3ad10ab25de39d3109aa4 SHA-1: cf36afdba9441c8b5e413135e9bf3fb20feccf41 SHA-256: ae7b804a38509e89d40902ebe5bdc4f38b909fee59a839b152e704632087d1df
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded files and XFA forms are common techniques for PDF-based malware delivery. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used as a lure or part of a larger exploit chain. The specific embedded files are not detailed enough to determine their exact function, but their presence alongside the XFA form suggests an attempt to execute code or download further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • 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
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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://testset.com In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xEB5 85 bytes
SHA-256: c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
embedded_file_obj0042.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF67 1029 bytes
SHA-256: dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
embedded_file_obj99999.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 99999 at offset 0x1183 25205 bytes
SHA-256: 14738da1b210461300b458e784f8c290f7cbbf415611e6ee9f2a00f29a20992f
embedded_file_obj0044.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x217B 144 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
embedded_file_obj0045.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2228 77 bytes
SHA-256: 10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
xfa_base26_stage_000.js deobfuscated-js XFA separator-stripped base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed, XML-entity decoded) at offset 0x136C 4356 bytes
SHA-256: 8dd899369a952d0acfbcb09205174854e74cd7727b577c11ecd81a8035ac0f16
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
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