Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 361db4f3dce362f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: c053ca19e0285d2ff6ad1b6973d576c7 SHA-1: 0bb494161b0e7a224dec7e39d72d8c56381564ba SHA-256: 361db4f3dce362f7e6db3e699e28b74c29f3df451151a6f02c58406c13610f2e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to drop and execute a secondary malicious artifact. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of embedded exploit content is sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
192e3066900b269bc35ce9a3a2dbc753e4d156eec9019f8abe48d363ffcc878b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11286 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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