Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0effe549a1044ff2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: d7246751315e0bf92ce17a2109968efc SHA-1: 9f1704ecb67c6b53693ebe11d1f2368099b4c4e9 SHA-256: 0effe549a1044ff2e40bca10e5026dec2635fd8ae5d52d917daa57547a91174b
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the presence of an embedded file. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation for client execution. The embedded JavaScript is designed to download and execute a second-stage 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
71fdc764e781896092c027ccd2df393cba801db2155673edbea5558713dbe1f5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18833 bytes