Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e157c7be620571d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB
MD5: b3d3e9ba519b57ff2b384c2681b65e48 SHA-1: 43a28e60eb4867d9a31a08a2a073f02135a7f881 SHA-256: e157c7be620571d111e0c7cd88b858b0beafc2af6f5d25d0a48e2687bb46b4e8
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 the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The XFA form suggests a potential attack vector leveraging Adobe's XML Forms Architecture. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing malicious actions, potentially downloading further payloads.

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
fc515c9b05cddada2f7ff5e04ebf4c1dd1532a3108f503e13122915eb20f862d
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102152 bytes