Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3553d1637ad144aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: f298f7fcea4b69b91399d3cb764e1385 SHA-1: b1712546a9292d8afbf0116914d8684be70f728c SHA-256: 3553d1637ad144aa223024bb184843d9220116284116ef93d916874f2a38f7b0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, and a machine learning classifier assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, suggesting the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability. The embedded file artifact further supports the delivery of a secondary 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
f7a3d4773e22ab9aa867a04fd515a95935856cce1c4b7c55f2c24fc72743ac4b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18775 bytes