Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 219abe51003f7c6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: cc5e3eaef27ea4144943908c1e370295 SHA-1: 2c5a003b5197e75bceb1c5f614ad023f08601d47 SHA-256: 219abe51003f7c6e9a6ee3f2fe13308c6dac7cce07339c4d9e2a8bc2821950b0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF's structure.

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
27a412b04d627edd8d135cf2b1afa6461411850193438c2960d9b69dd7a9ff21
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11577 bytes