Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0be8629a3608c5d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 21943129d1a6f6f9dfda846d9e217ada SHA-1: ddd053661e81d4ba0b6b18a45e2b5425699b7c72 SHA-256: 0be8629a3608c5d997e7631f27da047b08138d77752dfda1955ad6391f6b94c0
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded script likely facilitates the exploitation of a PDF viewer vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' firings. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is highly suspicious and likely the dropped payload.

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
f3b03cce6ffdcb501f506caa2fb275a0671c949ab717718eb9308cbddf62f9e5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11502 bytes