Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 301b02b43aba80a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 8fe83f2aaead05bf94e41911d87fda75 SHA-1: 0afa42574515768254747ed1fe725ed3e01d34b2 SHA-256: 301b02b43aba80a8bc8546630a90b46d3f42ae1dc7e1d3c1edbe9be4478fa2a3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. While no specific document body content was extracted, the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is designed to deliver a secondary payload.

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
20e7d736d1fa8a9eb3d7b2b9b60815309093229d5e973e53ae725cf635361dff
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11391 bytes