Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3428483f00c75607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 4b0cda46f4282b567f57a98d413bc23d SHA-1: 8605851a86ab7692759cf890b7d001b78c831556 SHA-256: 3428483f00c75607c66e7211ebbee2ff6818a8782782d4b449518b768689c7fd
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score. It contains an embedded file and an XFA form, which are common vectors for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded script payload suggests an attempt to execute a secondary stage.

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 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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 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
72564aeb8023fc1c16ef1afaeaf86b226b148d6ad5d6a2a1b958dc093c6246f8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11695 bytes