Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 332ed00cfa02c5bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.3 KB
MD5: a8b6f1638dd35b0dd4c29b66f28d154b SHA-1: e33013096efc4e9d796c74178bc4487391d807e0 SHA-256: 332ed00cfa02c5bccf44d98b8088f3c859418b3f2a6aeb8ac95efa874ea53fa2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Static analysis revealed embedded content, including a script payload within a PDF stream, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. An embedded file artifact was also identified, likely serving as the delivered payload.

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
2ac89399474fa351c53627b86bd898867ed7f1a605d74c8984dad652c264f67c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 27243 bytes