Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13517378a5832220…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 08d34db0bedb360ced4cd9b4a8e4a2d1 SHA-1: 4e76be40dd8e0b9247762395f7cd4082f57dec07 SHA-256: 13517378a583222021f11d630c927bc9a715a60c44ccbeb3ca4d777fb63c3a33
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, and a high ML score. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The benign Adobe and XFA URLs do not detract from the malicious nature of the embedded content.

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
3c23caca8aef39970dc55c0f6aad52a489994bb7e5173a479981ae5fbf337288
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18926 bytes