Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e4d31529aeffcdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 08d01dc87fecce1d73ffd711eb4c1e68 SHA-1: 89ac7c925e2a47a5d771e22609536c940977bb35 SHA-256: 2e4d31529aeffcdda3ccfee361ba992ebd399c2805d1503845877189f17ee00f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malware. The XFA form structure also points towards potential exploitability.

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
da4b72b8faf15213f96b7f7e26d972f73c954ca17bcfd9b6465df00edd295996
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18915 bytes