PDF malware analysis — malicious · d6f3536cfafce6b1

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.4 KB

MD5: a45cc9d13d0a0f77bf81d2f81ef165e5 SHA-1: f14ab687a99292806568f73d279301fbe43efbec SHA-256: d6f3536cfafce6b140299ee575d1b9df99299b4f7e5e34a215ab06a0907a9bb1

74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files, suggesting an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver secondary malware. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with the PDF structure and may be 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` `3da15bb2b6452dc18a03950553a72754a0349003f3ee4b9d7c6566ad7a327800`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 111 at offset 0xFBF	59604 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x200C	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x20B9	77 bytes

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