Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20ae089b5bdf73d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 3633ada9d207aab32be9e34f9cd91f3e SHA-1: fa13b71262f9fe61f09a692a3306652ce4a9d190 SHA-256: 20ae089b5bdf73d07bcb36a0342caf13dc4039b3fec43e47f0c3bd3a3ab8d912
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score, indicating it is a malicious exploit document. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this assessment. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the exact functionality is obscured.

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
6c89db3589adf292b5e18dbb298ba2c82a9a933b371d2b474a1827bf96c9ec10
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11320 bytes