Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fac1bc917a872d7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.8 KB
MD5: a0fe0a43a88b9f0f719aa0c71d08e7d7 SHA-1: 7aee26ee00a274e5f96449f818c0234f132238ed SHA-256: fac1bc917a872d7cc814b9050fbf051d4bc70f8ea9186721297d96492cfebd86
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with a high confidence score. It contains an embedded script payload, which is a common technique for delivering malware. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files further suggests a malicious intent, likely to exploit a PDF vulnerability and execute the embedded script. The script itself is too obfuscated to determine its exact function, but its presence strongly indicates a malicious payload delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9799

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/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_000002dc.bin
a6bcb8cca6347785830809fcc06e0466df318dfcd85cf15ed2000f6e835979c6
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x2DC 14232 bytes