Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0592fb1c937001ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: f342d38adeab48df31ee67a268c6c162 SHA-1: 9ddd94ea6340e06049c28829ef283c612a6f61cf SHA-256: 0592fb1c937001ef8c72ce410767f2cc6441a8e15dc0992f483ed6661fed97ff
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF with XFA forms and an embedded script payload, flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious. The embedded file and script likely facilitate the download and execution of a secondary payload, indicated by the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The benign Adobe and XFA URLs 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
7f58ce7cb874c21fc3802b7a73e7cde830367068024f989edf02a9746bc1b345
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18772 bytes