Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aed3d352a10e7190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2ed643fb5f1534a04f49b2926c47973d SHA-1: 011f1330588ca289332fd01ecd92c945e84cb1d3 SHA-256: aed3d352a10e71908aea91e525d102e5061d4b86234d863ba14a25a195329714
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and ML classifier firing strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON heuristics suggest the document is designed to trigger an exploit, likely by embedding malicious content or an action button. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the delivery of a secondary payload. The specific exploit used is not detailed, but the overall pattern points to a PDF-based exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • PDF exploit shellcode contains an embedded download URL high PDF_JS_SHELLCODE_DOWNLOAD_URL
    Decoded PDF exploit shellcode contains a hardcoded http(s) URL — stored as little-endian %uXXXX Unicode escapes, or hex-encoded in a document metadata field (/CreationDate, /Title) and referenced from the decoded script. Reader exploit shellcode embeds the second-stage fetch URL this way and pulls it down with a urlmon/URLDownloadToFile-style download-and-execute (commodity downloader behaviour rather than a specific Acrobat CVE).
  • 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
  • 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://atnewstoday.net/explanation/mediums_operators-derive.php?qhjd=1l:1o:1o:1m:30&laeoiwsx=30:1l:1h:1g:1i:31:1i:1f:31:1n&areet=1g&avuiigya=cdbksnc&nllrkx=bkrtvb Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.2/Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • 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

Related samples 8

Ranked by shared artifacts, heuristics, extracted URLs, CVEs, and signatures.

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Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x27B9 85 bytes
SHA-256: c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
embedded_file_obj0042.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x286B 1029 bytes
SHA-256: dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
embedded_file_obj0043.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2A84 1867 bytes
SHA-256: ca2bacb751843d9af8db80af38fd7755052acc2dcc98e1f009f167d1d0743782
embedded_file_obj0044.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2EDE 144 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
embedded_file_obj0045.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2F8A 77 bytes
SHA-256: 10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275

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