Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f48b4a4b3e4484c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB
MD5: 21c2832a946481b5cb6a2622d922056c SHA-1: ce04bd057f79744d7de9e60554a71cf7fe78d971 SHA-256: f48b4a4b3e4484c4451da7b781b5469725101ab956f28e94f002b4ce2709e1b9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and confirmed by ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with a high probability of being malicious. The presence of XFA form elements suggests a potential avenue for exploit. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload.

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
d38bf912c4596790759e8660c71e3b36909c2cb02191c58e913d9fceb49e10f5
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 99519 bytes