PDF malware analysis — malicious · e2482bc00fba44c0

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.5 KB

MD5: a0723451f0a1bcec40f65b56e641f28e SHA-1: e35dea928031922efd54378e764407cd841d6e9b SHA-256: e2482bc00fba44c07a8edbd285d114c68d4b3faccfd88504b2932edc18877a37

148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

This PDF document exhibits malicious characteristics, including embedded scripts and an embedded file, as indicated by multiple high-severity heuristics. The presence of PDF_UNESCAPE and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT suggests an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The ML classifier strongly flags this as malicious. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
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
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `de606642ed8e3ef191e28a4e298b7a38f2d2f55957900685b7de1a5e623ba8ad`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	16126 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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