Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e12018bfda3b84d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.7 KB
MD5: 0ae827e33ec41ee41d03dece89010663 SHA-1: ae89d6b6b61c0cfc5a15f52a0a31619aa513e2f9 SHA-256: 0e12018bfda3b84d9617cc7ee19112eee38fac1e4ff8509cb0ba818a734bd448
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content and was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability within PDF viewers to execute 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
cd083faa131291cc77ce8ffa653fddd0b4f539fd49b0095d4dd2532107a85096
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18400 bytes