Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed7ae94612953786…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.4 KB
MD5: 1d3b8bdaaab6421f5c8271f154913a09 SHA-1: bae8cd18a50d1f9fd2b8903f6f69738d2a1a12f5 SHA-256: ed7ae9461295378612ef4a629ce952e33aa25bed9fb42c23eb2298dc496f6084
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating an attempt to deliver a secondary exploit or payload. The presence of XFA form elements also suggests potential for exploiting PDF viewer vulnerabilities. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious intent but are part of the document's structure.

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
134436c0860a9c11f6d941fa3af26f50f075be78234d3a4c1811702a9be510e9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 12997 bytes