Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 197e901f38bc579e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 44d6b3fbc0b2f6bb4c7ca0fea076056e SHA-1: 41fbb6678964ddff369ef85e40b865e9bb1cc9cf SHA-256: 197e901f38bc579e244a47efba49785bec8e703eaf140634a3668537b488c8eb
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability and execute a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements further suggests a potential attack vector.

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
0874521e30cf4b55d9f0b8ba280965ab7614be44368d52a0697f151689eeec3e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11250 bytes