Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfef6e7a20dca8ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB
MD5: 1771df33c34eab1eae049dade16192a4 SHA-1: 2f85690a2379dc4420bf537cef1cd448ac0260cc SHA-256: dfef6e7a20dca8ad7f886cd8dfef5ebbd102697eb458738aa30f726f6cd76e74
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and confirmed by ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The XFA form structure suggests a potential exploit vector. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000246.bin
7b0386dda26efe86034671a7fc67a9607be90e2bb4abc5305873b97c19f48dbd
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102347 bytes