Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d4177e0b5ed7d77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.0 KB
MD5: 04d1a9e2ea24233c42e5d8cae459f45d SHA-1: 24295cab02af72733487663e966dc281d0462244 SHA-256: 0d4177e0b5ed7d77221fef7af47020dec9904ed5840253a34f462203db1af9e3
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with a specific detection name (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78), indicating it exploits a known vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to execute a secondary payload upon opening. The benign URLs present are likely unrelated schema references.

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
64f48e3226e3958206b4f9d03bb3c80ba152c8f00dabaee2f18f25c71b421854
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 25867 bytes