Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2da25e299a251306…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: fa8a06db342f6a2a12663224b656d905 SHA-1: 15fe0effdf99a0f3f1c5f44bd80784744a35e0b1 SHA-256: 2da25e299a2513067679e46aa30640ee0a4f4bf5afa264a25a49aead45e619c9
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). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are typical of PDF structures.

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
b0dc83f61d9f679cf63892df3079f186a6f200154545e4392f4fc0f04f659c9b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19075 bytes