Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f17059a58be19f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: d84431305a632fd0e07785d46121b4ca SHA-1: 79a615ea53f397d2f1f1af5815f4cdbf43aa5d12 SHA-256: 0f17059a58be19f21bee90a18ad0fdadb2840ce650da1044157f0c01b0466bfd
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 is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form suggests an exploit is being leveraged to execute a secondary payload, likely downloaded from an external source.

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
c0824aa90abb3d3906a2382751e9df3dba1681d8f6d5faed53a38e5d507ca5b5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18682 bytes