Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bbf0ac5d81e79d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: d8a6ddf00774fe472b4b86103a8ed1e4 SHA-1: 570d5eaa37dccba22acbfee0c4f00b2cecadf221 SHA-256: 0bbf0ac5d81e79d98862846d3752f4b25983f0eb7168001b5143257e36f467af
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 and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs present are likely decoys or standard PDF form-related resources.

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
201affa9bac474843371e8e4b2492885de92e96c772fb70a57d2663ab83acaf0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11646 bytes