Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15992678989c541d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 01ca1f14c66b974642a067c204345919 SHA-1: d69cfa31b125447c4d81d012bd4d1f628b8c4a5c SHA-256: 15992678989c541dd6cbcbae49da1bd4a867c0bff81c6bb484ebfb2c428a817d
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 and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs extracted do not contribute to the maliciousness assessment.

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
5a77ef46a790d8f1dfe802301f299e9c58ff198c358f0d76e986c6a3bd5ab0b2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11352 bytes