Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc127962b6bea530…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.9 KB
MD5: 3562b51be6e2a1df8d170419deb9a537 SHA-1: 75a1e04ce997c5d237efaf310b6e82281dc27c3e SHA-256: cc127962b6bea530ea50d900da6041a6a653bd2b8b46e9965d03a92ac418c8fb
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, with a critical heuristic indicating it contains an embedded script payload. The presence of XFA form elements and an embedded script suggests an exploit is likely being used to execute malicious code. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000033a.bin
983be8cfb232479dcda4552759a94d9c3fb50f396cdec3a2900f2075f0d0e84a
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x33A 126109 bytes