Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04d9ecff97b98b50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB
MD5: 1fa466d955d09a4c104973d69d61be63 SHA-1: 7d896008b2b23cf4327e4c4dc54c00910c3f97df SHA-256: 04d9ecff97b98b50aca989170def6813ac2f6436c2eee74cad2eae42389ebe52
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 multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The benign URLs extracted do not appear to be related to the malicious functionality.

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
42e4a6c440d6de8cb2d0c9ac729504d3cb0e0d12760efefda0e8cdeb37834a0e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11789 bytes