Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fbaa896f6b26fd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: df3ce93682358b627542579b65a08f53 SHA-1: 7c751c0807345c30210ff9ba39decf6b42e30ef4 SHA-256: 0fbaa896f6b26fd227bf1eb6934679ea35c1fef3679351d76531ce1bdc0ca229
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form suggests an exploit is used to deliver a secondary payload. While specific URLs were benign, the embedded file itself is a key indicator of a dropped 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
e67eff5af2e4bad86fae9c0b5c7f4c6750fa868c1fecf1143682cbccdfae2f6c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11246 bytes