Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d714f066a609b3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.9 KB
MD5: ff39157fde48746115bd186a386a2fe0 SHA-1: 5441b1dee2fefa79237e778a69eff01bb1d2bba2 SHA-256: 0d714f066a609b3c0fef59fa9510bddf7ef3895e7d4a4cd64e85549ed61b3f8a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a secondary payload. The benign URLs found do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
124972132e279331dc9ed0896b6796bc4ce8794244226d577ecaf3a4cc71b576
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18588 bytes