Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32dd0d58f28845b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 753b9593d1596b85f8cbcedafaf6ed47 SHA-1: 9149a7cccc66295cc1f80da197d09ae9f1b9642d SHA-256: 32dd0d58f28845b8e5eefefd46aa24254993ec24302c849665aeb0d435f4dd81
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' indicates this PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF acts as a dropper for malicious content. The embedded URLs are benign or unknown, providing no direct IOCs for the payload itself.

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
86c05015f2a16a069b6bf28e5fa123466051185d84b370c30202ee89728bf055
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18772 bytes