Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecf5a92610d08406…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB
MD5: 97ef161de5858a842f8bb285f35b9082 SHA-1: 318904eba500381f4209dbf7e245015cb3646184 SHA-256: ecf5a92610d08406401df77c39510649752f11d35bb0ee0dcc10cd6f73cd6f4f
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the presence of an embedded PDF script artifact. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically targeting PDF exploits. The XFA form structure further supports this, as XFA forms are sometimes used to host exploits. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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_00000246.bin
22131c2ea18de49dd8c9b3e62e790ac68d437bccde045f44b444d2e1a441c3cc
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 103021 bytes