Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb5f8d6093387838…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Authoring application: saerb
MD5: 037b0e61bc167f612897019a812eddbc SHA-1: 774ef45e70a8b0b3fc772bd0f885366feb342fef SHA-256: fb5f8d6093387838ed859669be8104f5c0ed359460ded9db6802d65b2fe9273a
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains an embedded JavaScript file. The embedded script is likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded script payload and the ML classification strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000002e9.js
573c6c30ea502f42c328de38ca63523678b0833fbf673e5c2730ca75513566dc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E9 65176 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).