Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03e70c05d68e29ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.8 KB
MD5: e238825b7e1c7b945c1533047b1c5e71 SHA-1: 18ec352f48efd6fe44f1a023ba49ea5b7dab714b SHA-256: 03e70c05d68e29ed3fac6b369d2bfcf6b23b55a65b43f1a1618b2463ebe2943a
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and a script payload, flagged by heuristics as malicious. ClamAV detections indicate it's an exploit that drops another malicious artifact. The embedded JavaScript, though truncated, is characteristic of exploits that download and execute second-stage malware.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
0f9f09aa44af5206bb5d98c5e646b060643f0347e5d4d854470ed5a8262ce87d
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14429 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely