Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 365df833666c6bfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: e5f38923b261d930c243d710b5752968 SHA-1: 865dd0bf60f50b8f2d17e729a635035ea8ca37e2 SHA-256: 365df833666c6bfc1fbb76df328951308b44dc583dc15156b2310525114e93c0
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded file and script payload suggests it's designed to drop and execute a secondary stage. The document body contains no user-readable content, further supporting its role as a malicious container.

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
d37e059df48e2d70c0fd63f05695c5d3a119f8d950d3c8bd75d3297a7fa15efa
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11323 bytes