Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03062cacff3cc600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 783bca8b0e7d0d40288387369b6cf912 SHA-1: 2006e48789d013d195fe8fbb5f7d69e086555402 SHA-256: 03062cacff3cc6002e38fe5dbd9db46c3e482b49c85f721acede7ec7fd167c95
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score, indicating it contains an exploit. An embedded file artifact was also extracted, suggesting it's used to deliver a secondary payload. The benign URLs present do not appear to be related to the malicious functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
13b302e8997629481c9358b71f77c471206458974afe4f0518ff7526085032d2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11311 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).