Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 275fed360d99bc8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 010e47d2f045ebd05b417de7bd184272 SHA-1: 60871c862f2cd04996b8f1e2e410d1f5800f97c1 SHA-256: 275fed360d99bc8b707bc723416b777d8821a38303b8ef0eb8bc3b7d3ee37531
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high ML classifier score indicate this PDF is malicious. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic suggests it contains an embedded script designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded file artifact further supports the payload delivery mechanism. The specific ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' is used as the primary IOC.

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
eddcd1fdae2711d82c86f91eb517b9a7ee4ac2e96cf731fd057a8cfb4f0139c1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11701 bytes