Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1234db9544987225…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 95f54e67ebb7f5dd273098c3a0e44a0a SHA-1: 5fbd7556abe39e71e0edbc3cf9cd9ff2ed4afcd1 SHA-256: 1234db9544987225c404babc6eb5af2aa8150693b2991def551c12cefd8f5b81
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded script content and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs present do not appear to be 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
81cb677e341214530f8481f72a3dcfb6cc008a644c1627d81719cd862688a247
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11525 bytes