Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8d9f2705c291d98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f0304bdc4dbd0d89fbeb8bb564984bcd SHA-1: bcef006ece6df214885af42898a624d5d6bad0c1 SHA-256: e8d9f2705c291d98abbd5f522fad296fbf697912113eb7a579ebcf164bdb566d
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary stage. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a common vector for PDF exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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 script payload in PDF stream info 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 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/ In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42640 bytes
SHA-256: e55c7b270964809d1cfcd57ee178a0c5a4b5c71af45409d9a1abdf1d52d2c00c
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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