Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a4bb590eaf23e95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.2 KB
MD5: 7a4702a43e781846b74e1ea79b73e6d9 SHA-1: 0fa4fe3cf74a17fc626ec10809a6c7ea8ef4ab41 SHA-256: 0a4bb590eaf23e959083ea9217272b2e35a85803239f6f0708647d4a271caad6
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating an exploit and dropped payload. The presence of an embedded file and script payload within the PDF stream strongly suggests it's designed to execute malicious code upon opening. While specific URLs were benign, the core functionality points to exploitation for client execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
8bf7594151ff5aee7a48f153ed04af289ea6a06da54ed8dbd4c70eee33410c98
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26063 bytes