Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f457a0980419acf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 11d8591d820f3e2a5580674d6d433c6a SHA-1: 0724e5facbd8617f7ef97aa68593b5e2a18a486f SHA-256: 0f457a0980419acf24a68f739e49a7a8b87bbf240b44c1cee5f4160dadf726f6
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to deliver a second-stage malicious payload. The specific ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further supports this assessment.

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
16a2abddc27b8337e879e0f558d633b29c9ad0e6fff1291eb6b2e597d4067b8c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11506 bytes