Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd1a89e2a6de11cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.7 KB Created: QMdfOpAmjua
MD5: bef547431eb7749954c0e82d8c75e300 SHA-1: e296d4f0b3d4515725b35f1083150e60a61fd29e SHA-256: bd1a89e2a6de11cc3c223ab17911e06d6ea5a9e72900de2ab04a3c7cac668d13
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with a high confidence score. Static analysis revealed an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating a likely exploit delivery mechanism. The presence of these elements strongly suggests the document is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
8e28f3e3394e6a93ddeea97d4214dd721fc4266317d4e38e43d75c8c1cf75bde
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x7D1 16090 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).