Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0105582de36f49f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.3 KB
MD5: dc84b87622d1d59c6af61970282aa815 SHA-1: adb8531921cc8c1c20ddf89b229cf3668469cd2e SHA-256: f0105582de36f49f8c50e89430644b8b7705fef53e23649e2965fc19af6a2f8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains XFA forms and uses JavaScript, including eval() and String.fromCharCode(), to execute code. The embedded JavaScript, deobfuscated.js, likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The presence of an embedded file further supports the payload delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
58500abcbf2edada77531c138583f3bc8051695d863d52b0de5efeab1f3743f2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x52 1163 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
deobfuscated.js
2ead7f2568a04fb38789a7f0f5bd75622bc27ec977819115c4b513600752a317
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 1897 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).