Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f101cb0164aad7ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.4 KB
MD5: f9fd97a21143cfda396db4580f5e2ceb SHA-1: 86d711867446735b586a7f5ee2ee4819f68b02ed SHA-256: f101cb0164aad7ac76dc02bec955c8275fb330dbde05382fab6447c1fc2b0c2f
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, a common technique for delivering malicious content. While no specific document body text was extracted for content analysis, the presence of embedded scripts and the overall PDF structure strongly suggest an attack pattern aimed at exploiting the user or the PDF reader.

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
116c72f73981860aeffbeb26f105acc4c8475efe05ae412c11cb3e8fe26273bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD1 13011 bytes