Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f485c17e5bab36b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB
MD5: 2f7407211a05c0c25f7a09dd4e3cf32d SHA-1: 61b3abd2495917a26f2bf4bd9a00ac5abff820ec SHA-256: f485c17e5bab36b875678702424bb12ad95e402e12b41058e1d74678539c08f8
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0'. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload indicates an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though its exact functionality is obscured by the PDF structure.

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_0000026c.bin
f3f8e728433150d45195f2093a61b2758ae81c715275114decc6676db8f13f31
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 99947 bytes