Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02beb29b802c6d3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: 15ff4abc8283b50ea99a9fbc9e2ace8c SHA-1: afb7759c42451f336510f9db7e76f8ecbbb00a90 SHA-256: 02beb29b802c6d3a57a1717af1887dd385ce6b1795153aa9b71e30a1d109aaf9
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded content and XFA forms, common vectors for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. The ML classifier also returned a very high probability of maliciousness.

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 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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 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
d63f6be3c80354fce1834a644d3ec64f6533fee36e1d33ea5781c2cbec976df9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18974 bytes