Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f24e739a022b823…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.4 KB
MD5: 0048a1d9f61c9ec88b46f6b733b63b7c SHA-1: 4bc66664223987d00841d73d3cfcdda625226700 SHA-256: 0f24e739a022b82379ef5662e88e872b9df8133bb278642fa38a5e6a5a44d0f7
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains an embedded file and XFA form, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities for client execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
6e72dd431581c6fced2c4de7f0d4cb055a6bd1ebc90d41f02b80a89344372cd0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 14979 bytes