Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a38898c5caaeb83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 13f3ec61ac5ee68237282e74dc1af5a5 SHA-1: 6d1d71ad6f95687e526213b97f2b9f99fa32c37e SHA-256: 2a38898c5caaeb83beae0467954a9cd17c20bc8b86eacdb868a91139cfd07bc2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The presence of XFA form elements further suggests a complex PDF structure often used for exploitation.

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
11da41dc7ba52f4ae3f9d141f24cadaa56d0e6352040f4db6c650a02f8e6cdcc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19086 bytes