Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35b814c7ae510193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 91e4800332c1255d8a6dff5d9d08f27d SHA-1: 10e4c1ead68537c0927807123b1737f1d5c52fcc SHA-256: 35b814c7ae5101938f6fc6e6fc9f19fccdfc3d040050628c691a91ef65e314b9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded content and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it's designed to drop a malicious payload. The presence of embedded scripts and files within the PDF structure strongly suggests an exploit attempt. While specific script actions are not detailed, the overall pattern points to a delivery mechanism for further malicious activity.

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
a765b4e0f69f9dd83247f197a8ebda9a66fd10ee72ee3310a9febc4ecfbcfa52
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11193 bytes