Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbdd14bf815aad71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB
MD5: 1d915df6b98984ba8a473e4f7a6f0861 SHA-1: e9d67beb445bb896b698faf029f34b058b7e498c SHA-256: bbdd14bf815aad7198d613ca0dc13c85c81f283d52cbbd9cdd79f387d39e06b8
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded script payload, a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. The XFA form structure further suggests a potential attack vector. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact functionality is obscured by the PDF structure.

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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000026c.bin
913bfa93c030961e47289bfca9484d89d9da6cf2ed0b447f6b6fc61324af22e8
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 98659 bytes