Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1151e65f653e96b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 20643f6398d30c592d188408b1d2c0e7 SHA-1: e0dae03bebf8d2d14f87fce47b39230e5edf1a30 SHA-256: 1151e65f653e96b12b3ba87b69fdeaf7313409184da0467c2d008abba7a47818
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload upon opening. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the other findings.

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
c208c515d26746944de7eec278d03d687c062556b1ff7b10c9209239f5f6b7c7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11310 bytes