Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c0e05f407fbe269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 14d629c8d541ba431cf0ca79dadc127d SHA-1: f845526b620b0c2cfdd50201fb568d0c5773db41 SHA-256: 0c0e05f407fbe26939614c5aedb51380100076d7f0d0aa0d77cee025081cea3f
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts within the PDF stream indicates an attempt to execute malicious code. The embedded file artifact further suggests the delivery of a secondary 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
d5152dcffbe89908c3d9bdf785d64d18f552d79dde8ed57841a83fb4146be4ee
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11345 bytes