Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15e351bdbf1f13d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 9e0236c96bf9ed7891f0f420cc6be566 SHA-1: b5b494dc716b1852984ea5f0af16c3b3663e6070 SHA-256: 15e351bdbf1f13d23dc08b3f1e89fd8d4cb8f4162b037ccde750a9ce14d2908f
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 critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in PDF viewers to execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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
2ca36c8198cd6cc777052d3898596db37d269252063cd68e13ab9782b0226b23
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11669 bytes