Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01c2c4e512132014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: aa4a55813fe5d0e3a0514eed6cda38c4 SHA-1: ba93d00398e740e5168e0741fb11e1a643d331a8 SHA-256: 01c2c4e5121320140bb2b9fbfb68f91c07b83c19dd3f3ff77edd6f4b2d6238a1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. An embedded script payload was identified, suggesting the document is designed to exploit a client-side vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier output of 0.999995 further supports the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
de1258b1eda9faf31ea8c88f9f1be728c92eb19809b20ae959286ef3699348b7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11284 bytes