PDF malware analysis — malicious · f5f2e9e99c3ad0b4

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.95 MB

MD5: 0969580630b38cefb075276da472b9ff SHA-1: 2cab25f1dfe6b9efab129066d87bd29477d23a53 SHA-256: f5f2e9e99c3ad0b4b949d6a7dba716f2d070e29dc2616a67aeb5be62ab2bcfbd

164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928. High-confidence heuristics indicate the presence of risky executable script within an XFA form, a common vector for PDF exploits. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this as malicious. While the exact script functionality is obfuscated, the presence of embedded files and the XFA script suggests it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36928
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)
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x3B4A	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x3BFC	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `ba0e5e9325a205dc6ca244a8d3585dd8bcaf7a9184a56f9d93dfa48724da36ce`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x3E15	1645 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x41CA	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x4276	77 bytes

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