Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f473e0f63aaf074…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.5 KB
MD5: c0816f499b75a67e479cb804cbf021c5 SHA-1: 5589060baa969d26b67cf9d3287632b0cef87339 SHA-256: 0f473e0f63aaf07452447e427fa0752b958b088501f9d788ae2441270a9aeec6
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 multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection for a dropped exploit. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, which is a common technique for PDF-based malware.

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
2c8e314fcdd2ac8226a66918b825a144c0b91284829f60071a038d70b5207092
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18154 bytes