Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcfb636053d27492…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.0 KB
MD5: d5eb9e2552b7824db8f800e38485dbbe SHA-1: 460bd1936422e08bef3ede9c7b0e82fafd165426 SHA-256: bcfb636053d27492cc74574cc244d761bcb81cd253ac8bf9c0a42d709353c496
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded script content, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high score. While the script content is heavily obfuscated and difficult to parse directly, its presence within an embedded object suggests it is intended to execute malicious code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The XFA form structure and embedded URLs are common in PDF-based attack vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9871

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_000002da.bin
6ac027384eba614da645890591bf9e5a7220ffd47d17ea3b62094565f89dff8d
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x2DA 15301 bytes