Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0906b2247243fa0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 1d2b58e6002039e595e04ac89b9f2172 SHA-1: 0a3924ed8b5b444bb7ab8f1e4acb258649366f9c SHA-256: 0906b2247243fa0d01ec8eb2d453ce066b6731573e224b1b16ece50b3ab967bc
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', and an ML classifier indicating high maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download additional malicious content. While specific URLs were benign, the embedded file name and ClamAV signature indicate a dropper 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
3d8cb1026457d6f07a77e7e5d3a7fd2b80b14bfc439f64d863e618892fe96565
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11333 bytes