Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3296a7521c766169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: a22cd3f1c208ce695468528e340aff56 SHA-1: cb9c15f33aba4ac2ec0a9822faeb6b4a03a83d13 SHA-256: 3296a7521c766169099876d3265040fcfc699e2ebbdfb673e60854bda46797cb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', and an ML classifier with a high confidence score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are known to be exploited in PDF attacks.

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
8e8e7671a3a365e0f8ee0c966095b6b5d8bf6e30fcf4f5b092ae8832b39e28e2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11188 bytes