Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 221ca457eba3165c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: c81968ed7191b6d224b43683e1b2f3d3 SHA-1: 0f21777bcfbbaecc0bc4517968c170be7de05da4 SHA-256: 221ca457eba3165c1e459cbd0bc3a434c6b20662ac83ebd66ab44a7bc034539e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded scripts suggests an exploit targeting PDF reader vulnerabilities.

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
67b587450f3fb5e99b0ab32e0f02a649d877786be08c9953a9edfd7847b2f61a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18729 bytes