Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16b14435e6426f89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.5 KB
MD5: 4cad78ea859f7940e921e946715e3a6a SHA-1: 864c775569a64ffc67a1eb62a538fbe3bd12cc5a SHA-256: 16b14435e6426f892483ca45a9aa75323e806945eb832a377d5ba6b34be0105e
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 ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability for execution. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting it's designed to download and run a secondary stage. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the heuristics.

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
d4e0c5e87ac91ea2465f5f85bd8a6d4cdeda99dd0b6eb54dedca0c89d295254d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19166 bytes