Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38e589616b86223d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 052b800466627010363fb2db304987f5 SHA-1: c6f3d4e056e66b74dd876f0af07586d3f04855de SHA-256: 38e589616b86223df29ffee66978d915425fc68f9c28e9c271103626a5a4a59b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF structure. The primary attack pattern is likely the exploitation of a PDF vulnerability to drop 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
72ad1eac0225010b0b2458219b71e08d5f607cf1747d4992d608b98aadaa8796
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18744 bytes