Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11609ca89c915315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 78e2337f5ab3c30c9c67c83a38dcd541 SHA-1: 35376cab89371ec1e46d630b872ced181cd18c82 SHA-256: 11609ca89c9153153d1714beb725fbaff556713f1b81204eee67895a9b3d0794
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF with XFA forms and embedded scripts, flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious. The embedded script payload and embedded file suggest the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability for client execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
32e10ff4abe338fdeaab863d6d5a8c4fcd2f229f10ea5b2657ed955af99e528d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11498 bytes