Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b044f34575cc035e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.2 KB
MD5: b8ea7daf2973cf81bef9d24a49fd1ff9 SHA-1: 9cbf7d918129d69eda987304b67285423e1cf50b SHA-256: b044f34575cc035e605025820de814d77d0a36f71705f306015825b870d8be84
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded script payload and triggers high-confidence heuristics for malicious content, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The presence of XFA form elements also suggests a potential attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin
cba07812d76939b0b71e610bd7c06f27fe67c25728ff18f406ee3762f39605dc
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12792 bytes