Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05c8b158a15fe479…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.6 KB
MD5: d51056443c5f01a42a5e4b0f36f973e2 SHA-1: e91852577b76dfdb765023b4dad7578296f0d131 SHA-256: 05c8b158a15fe47962896784c5d39ef016fb0bc87f6d220c55c808eb236f8f15
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further supports this assessment.

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
3b12ea7bd4682158736332f0ae0b383156cd746b1fd19d229590b6d19b377137
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18247 bytes