Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ead7ca150bfb9d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 490efa9f4a87f7398a5cc8cf83fdb157 SHA-1: 14f886a0702a48afd69be241951cbf04cb089055 SHA-256: 1ead7ca150bfb9d061d505983eba3b4302b442c0d2f6bbb5d22a2834bd843b10
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded content and a script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload. The script itself is heavily obfuscated and truncated, preventing a detailed analysis of its specific actions.

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
fbf467ced95b639504bd0d3e5b8b2911eda40c6f304a90a280791e52b234f242
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11249 bytes