Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34d414435ad4c2f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 966c6984796acc8009471d367333bb3e SHA-1: 3449eb7e61077bae7e88d48a6b6e25cced3433cb SHA-256: 34d414435ad4c2f0a182580dc8e20fdb4495af485c3eef66e60927edff2ac77a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1553.005 Subvert Trust Controls: Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

The PDF file contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly suggests it's a known exploit. The embedded file and script are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
5df0d5599840ecda3e0dbb4529c426de3faf31e0271b24320b1eaa761b88c9b1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18794 bytes