Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8615529a56ae229…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB
MD5: aec6df073d291d168328c473b2a0cf6b SHA-1: 06f06df9c159d7907693dda24040e9eba66229ed SHA-256: c8615529a56ae229a6730be54204f65ba667bc48387db5a8b17507cb73d3a668
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier with high confidence as malicious. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded scripts and potentially embedded files, suggesting an attempt to deliver a payload. The XFA form structure is also noted. No document body text was available for analysis, and the embedded script was too obfuscated to determine its exact function, but its presence strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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_000002d8.bin
8c4ce56475a75c2649e392a7f5493f771b15cbf03b2263f4893834c81b9b0aa1
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x2D8 3634 bytes