Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ceaf43e7a249fe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 0fb5cb6e75466c84d25453e898bee092 SHA-1: b50bfc919f83935e2846f7c7af8eeee84100bbb0 SHA-256: 2ceaf43e7a249fe70e472e24055251df64dd1b28378f25e5b4f1cd1fec048252
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with a high probability of being malicious and was also detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent. The XFA form structure is often abused in PDF exploits.

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
a43530cae298691f9272f20c144b981ff640e6abb566c676d769cacac30c5bc6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11156 bytes