Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 155024e42cce2630…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 4830980fa1ba0f93a8a658b2d300cd21 SHA-1: 9cba3db1da92a38a274264f4eaef91aa8220565d SHA-256: 155024e42cce2630376f7d661d80380c10253e2bf203b981df7948a160f5f610
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains embedded content and an XFA form, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities within PDF viewers. The embedded file and exploit heuristics indicate it likely downloads and executes a secondary 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
  • 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
a1217f6e1a4b5c1b5e46027794edea2b6dbde0b9f8787ae5ba13e9cb8c6fe1b9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11337 bytes