Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32963f1222f73ef1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 51d1c34c8d69e24bdf2e9ddf7ebf6266 SHA-1: 77022726022de4184e26ae6ba27ec0e1552ed4ac SHA-256: 32963f1222f73ef1d5786f391eef7a65f80c2f58065da6652660470141d9af07
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566 Phishing T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and medium heuristic for an embedded script payload indicate this PDF is malicious. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files further supports its role as a delivery mechanism. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the document's structure, likely used to load or validate the exploit.

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
a1b0afa6c6bc203e0a49eb75d66a6d42462fba1ea62129cd25248c4ff8718e10
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18818 bytes