PDF malware analysis — malicious · d30bc3b427131f34

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.1 KB

MD5: a8e8029b9b9a80bb9d1f173b91cca283 SHA-1: 00ab38395824881c67328a2e2a530f98642aaf55 SHA-256: d30bc3b427131f34de08b677ca2b36fdcb8eedf8e1c1ec7e0626f93d3a8ae3c8

74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and is flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. The presence of an embedded file object and an AcroForm button with an action trigger further indicates malicious intent. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

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
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xCF3	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xDA5	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0111.bin` `735955531ce7258404456c9126711619608e6b473ccb581fb56e3cd9e68f6c29`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 111 at offset 0xFBF	57576 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x1F05	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x1FB2	77 bytes

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