Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16bede2ad0c9de04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: b72d5a04de8841c49226e9d1c6c96eb7 SHA-1: b7ba7c2aa66ebacbf55356e65972ee09e031dad7 SHA-256: 16bede2ad0c9de04218e49a19820d66b45630dfabd75545145c4bdce3a723dcc
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains embedded script content and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests a client-side exploit.

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
974487e256377fe4a6f39739d438a92c40ab37cd274e8f7c02a559f3a7371e87
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18820 bytes