Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 195354caf62ccbbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 50e311e5ab99fe744a8762b03469b8bd SHA-1: 5f6d3b8b74c86aea4d69f39a1b180ead1c80bb82 SHA-256: 195354caf62ccbbe2b574ec7cd46d9b5242754d7d4d30c4816be5373df66fff1
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The benign URLs extracted do not appear to be directly related to the malicious functionality.

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
acc4eb59662abb59321626cc51eae1d21b7a3ffab9a6b9585af7aae59699d540
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11374 bytes