PDF malware analysis — malicious · b919b44ca4e35237

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.2 KB

MD5: 9b643c34d70fdca1b7970b48865909f0 SHA-1: e587667147ea972827d3f1f7cfd1dc64d290be1f SHA-256: b919b44ca4e3523729a2cb860e878e27d60f4ff11090de054aafebd486d203f5

164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.007 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: JavaScript/VBScript

The critical ClamAV detection and high heuristic firing for PDF_XFA_SCRIPT indicate this PDF contains malicious executable script within an XFA form. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this file. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a lure. The script's exact function is obscured, but it is highly probable that it downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928
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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x3A60	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x3B12	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `ba0e5e9325a205dc6ca244a8d3585dd8bcaf7a9184a56f9d93dfa48724da36ce`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x3D2B	1645 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x40E0	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x418C	77 bytes

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