Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1711793d9ff0ee3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.8 KB
MD5: 513bd4b26947892d4383fe310d6ffda8 SHA-1: 0dea1ea1656a0261f889662f42c732999eed8be1 SHA-256: 1711793d9ff0ee3c3420a541de3ae4f44ba827648ae09decac5e9e1d17233e56
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the presence of script-like content in the DOC BODY. This JavaScript is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF viewer, leading to the execution of malicious code, as suggested by the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristics. The embedded file and XFA form also point towards a complex malicious PDF structure.

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
d98ea490a59b04f1c7df50e5ecbb0156574b358f408172e928890a1d9742f71e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18496 bytes