Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b034a89b6d1f84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.5 KB
MD5: f54ecc5fd0aef39bf70168a8b17c26ad SHA-1: 53e41e9a3f839c47d487402f753303f27b82ced7 SHA-256: 29b034a89b6d1f84f2558c34a43d29f55e184871fff8e4eebd1bc4dc365e0273
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs further supports its malicious nature.

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
833a111dfdc5815f14246c10cac0e99d27283ab10ddf451e6aa722dd9104e231
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 12014 bytes