Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 232fcf8e805c8f9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: e0e6bbac03fa26f73ab72ae590ce15c9 SHA-1: bcfb6ad6d50ffec6b3179cefca03acc1c6b3db3b SHA-256: 232fcf8e805c8f9fa67719579c8991c92c475b9874dd1c160b2ca2b06eaa05aa
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 heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is intended to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The document body content is not indicative of a specific lure.

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
346be2c4ea9ef0a66d7c7f6ddc107e199b65cfb54886961445a0111e68c3c460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19048 bytes