PDF malware analysis — malicious · ef51ecbede812239

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.1 KB

MD5: 39caf6359ae13b604018bcc379dab6a3 SHA-1: 12f7586e951ded3bc09417945a1a872663675417 SHA-256: ef51ecbede812239a7b8267b84a0541d0f6959eb8c8e6c860b297506f27a27f0

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by heuristics like PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. The presence of unescape() and String.fromCharCode calls suggests obfuscation, commonly used to hide malicious code. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The script's intent is to download and execute this payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules.
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `e637b61b0d0289a741d166949aebb66e4c177ea1120a59dc6052a3d75974c887`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	26032 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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