Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0302bd9cada6e946…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 9f5a1fc44f2a42f605da70f51d9ca829 SHA-1: 5be4a1cbf6a9fdf74753cf95320786e450cfbfe1 SHA-256: 0302bd9cada6e9462f788ccdb943bbf3c9afbccef996d8c8291326565a22d57c
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded nature and exploit detection suggest it's designed to execute a dropped payload upon opening, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
343de28999fa0f75cd4b22cf2389b100db7a6354e9ea5fae10914d2b248e2d92
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18923 bytes