Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13cdc971bb69ddf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 6017d7cdb7d445aa049d04dfe735832e SHA-1: d4c75eb76c10539abe99a4b0b2f0b18d590ae9af SHA-256: 13cdc971bb69ddf51a9ee834bac9f7ac11a014ea781bea03678c847e7e47e27b
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains malicious content. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The benign URLs found do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
147119a167bcdbee1ad4d30fbe075d4a75a6c444ae6f75245c64c1ddcd373376
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11333 bytes