Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0384920a38f47f13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 9596a3543da8314c945e0142aab7a838 SHA-1: aa4896afb2605cda68d83d9fbc4762b4604ce654 SHA-256: 0384920a38f47f13cceca2e79637cf67c64929a986efa02fe31012770798c763
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability for client execution. The benign URLs present do not appear to be malicious.

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
60d51fc0035d90a1acb91fc69f6abf33e533c56c9d8c9a3ae6e166a1b59aca50
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19126 bytes