Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5ee37971d86c4a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.2 KB
MD5: bbd4198d7564e14ccbcacea24cd4eb9f SHA-1: 40757b0ec9225f950c61cdf5281419376bda2e44 SHA-256: e5ee37971d86c4a997645acee430c817500072c5011aa2ff967b722eea88e53c
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious PDF

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with a high probability. Static analysis revealed an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code. The presence of XFA forms and an embedded file further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
64c98022350fe2b49b630171ed42349493b7bd5cf25dd87f1b0439c040872169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xEA 12949 bytes