Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bd1ab4fb6b16ff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 1e540e9e04b2a741a60b17e1dafb5258 SHA-1: dea13dc66c0a1865ffda8e0c68519ff071657336 SHA-256: 0bd1ab4fb6b16ff03a7d375a0f8bd6d3d53cc2796c9baaf0ebf916c9291e1d7c
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains an embedded file and triggers heuristics related to embedded scripts and exploits. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the execution of the embedded artifact. While no specific family is identified, the attack pattern suggests a common method of delivering secondary payloads via malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
b2e9a7387ca79d65237ae1c25f7f1c8eee8563762ae3a5d61b2ba351f8506938
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11166 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).