Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 289dda4a56cee03b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 1d7375a3a8b835ee74f408ba4b81354e SHA-1: 17095f3c09205064d42a73b7c8225c9bcf023d2a SHA-256: 289dda4a56cee03b2f59c2c3c3cc3db4f176a97190a19be7fab31583da25b980
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and an ML classifier. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a secondary payload. The document body content is not indicative of a specific lure, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly point to a malicious exploit delivery.

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
0cc5bc8b0f1682a24e8c40f2862ecb9519c83d05e521b4c04f79269ee74db421
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11278 bytes