Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fc92225f641487b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: cbea1970b86399d586e5c0cbd913c01b SHA-1: 7dae83e7da9af52dc4f9d0b422d9be82c836b07a SHA-256: 0fc92225f641487bb6f09d5cbda79b71e275a5dd6b8203aa623bc80c52d3d807
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is intended to exploit a vulnerability upon opening, likely leading to the execution of a secondary payload. The benign URLs extracted do not appear to be directly related to the malicious functionality.

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
d16fb69519f892ee2aeaa44e8d42c9baaca96d97f15ce7c0c1b63c368f565770
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11607 bytes