Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30b841f6553c678e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 7ae68fe71eb65f51a5f80233c1bd7aff SHA-1: 8ecfc145c0ea8f903c3f0e4f8a229a24f92f8bca SHA-256: 30b841f6553c678e228b747c2d90a89fd9e1e39c601114b7048f89c912ec81fe
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded content and a script payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED' and 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristics. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly suggests it's a dropper for further malicious activity. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of embedded scripts and the ClamAV signature point to an exploit-based attack pattern.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
155db1b0d3d5e59081bcd336f62c3d1c63cbfab4b279f387c4309a08e5d9ac3d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11170 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).