Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0db8f480ef854f07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: e9e0ea0fccf48b80d350a515d24e2dd9 SHA-1: f2e78c26e83e7a1ec1e4efd3d7e506fff9df7884 SHA-256: 0db8f480ef854f07bf1cb6dd219362d81e9ab8b237a85883bfdfb3f6e5fc6485
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded content and XFA forms, indicating a potential exploit delivery mechanism. The embedded file artifact suggests it's designed to drop 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
6780b1348bdf97071c8135244100dba66b391d59f1387c30f64013e7eabfb635
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18730 bytes