Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 380a5c848b0f36d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: d7807e599ab54233fb622fe5e563668a SHA-1: 5e6a37b2db67e1cf8c15a898d5fa338345a7d99a SHA-256: 380a5c848b0f36d32b0104032a2990b7febedabc5302fd2592b62bdb4160d476
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF structure.

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
dc333729b44c8123eb3c33e23dd5a4124b6d362a9b263e4bd67a97993d748cfd
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes