Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1487026ddeca90bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: d75f20baebde335b7aba540c9dad70c7 SHA-1: ddd436611bb6bc5dcce0e73272d7508ffdd24110 SHA-256: 1487026ddeca90bf6f4c6931793da77fc9d44d6ab1cc9fb1ddb17970047c6b34
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded JavaScript payload. ClamAV detections indicate it's an exploit that drops another malicious artifact. The embedded script, though truncated, appears to be obfuscated JavaScript, likely responsible for downloading and executing the dropped payload.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
87a7afa4499d1950ad0ba1ba52f106401360e4e29eb108c70ba710d034a99c03
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14173 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely