Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 141476670e119ef7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 0111cf1bc084ecac4db80a21e0cdcf07 SHA-1: c89c380ab67ba12b0920b82f0da0bf59ecb56619 SHA-256: 141476670e119ef7e9cc0b9d2453f8b61b2e0acc371c0b536791b81fe0926296
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 ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains embedded content and XFA forms, which are common vectors for PDF exploits. The embedded file suggests it's designed to drop a secondary payload, indicating exploitation for client execution.

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
ee3d9e537f4975e1fc28880a36b97aba09cc4589417e8627bdecb6387c17c4c4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11429 bytes