Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebfff910a25d5dea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB
MD5: c6a7ef6e3d079980e0e593960e01be6e SHA-1: 93ede33599bfdb439878dc84eb1b30ef39c49a8a SHA-256: ebfff910a25d5dea23843a6683a688e31d9749f9a5aa551842f8e17009e40fd9
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting an embedded script payload and an exploit. The embedded artifact was also detected by ClamAV as a JavaScript exploit. This indicates the PDF is designed to execute malicious code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_0000023c.bin
e6d805b949598daeef666bc101d89c1643c0dd2f55d3ade417ffe24df639b4bd
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 80285 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-29
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely