Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ccb742ffef8d3c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.3 KB
MD5: 297feec6583995b96df1fba1fbb6eda7 SHA-1: 44ddfa84141d18bf03e67bceafa724b67494b034 SHA-256: 1ccb742ffef8d3c8f4f35267306d224edc019c935681683f58c6c72b61780c6e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent. The PDF structure suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

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 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
151c1fca8ce5a0950ecbfe878ce7903364a454a44f9dd398bfc7a9970235bf6e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26138 bytes