Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b6a042841913bc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 909859b00c81998f011f437ae1ae7041 SHA-1: 773e0b6d57d95a71766352e23ddbb467aebdcd1b SHA-256: 0b6a042841913bc4405bc4d69098462141f4c6d7097f46c6eb72aa9c36b6e709
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. It contains embedded objects and XFA form elements, which are common vectors for PDF exploits. The embedded file and exploit suggest the PDF is designed to execute a secondary payload on the victim's system.

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
6fcb40013e4f93dd048b3319d21d92729914b6d71462cea37f8131ef27097408
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11343 bytes