Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e25bf5ca7691b776…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.4 KB
MD5: a6bd0212885492ea515b5be8f3beed59 SHA-1: b6695b212ec863357c02681cbb697ca0cb62a12a SHA-256: e25bf5ca7691b77692ff0b45eae178772a892c122d38b162b1ad8628736202e7
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF T1553.005 Subversion: Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

The ML classifier strongly indicates this PDF is malicious. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or exploit. The XFA form structure is also noted, which can sometimes be leveraged for malicious purposes. The embedded URLs are related to Adobe XFA, but their reputation is unknown or benign, providing no direct IOCs for malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
f6b1403adfe74045220e21217be2c012319e4b7adc61790cf02b70bed3ea7c36
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 12968 bytes