Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19efe0e57ec4e44f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 5b91ab3ea492b05d3a42d856414fdfd6 SHA-1: 5b973966bde0ac023d2dcc27d9f171f2f4eeee91 SHA-256: 19efe0e57ec4e44f2842d4a07922a70c8ab66a521df0f4978ce89a4e32b639e8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Static analysis revealed embedded script payloads and an embedded file, indicating the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files are common characteristics of malicious PDFs.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium 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 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 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
038d31feb449d255b09d32e392037d88cfe556edede80709bbc41eaa9432333e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11356 bytes