Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3924fd9366265e55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: d104f76f1c81e649395e82d857c4dac8 SHA-1: a431b457c6f52bb3a565076c2c8efe9044bdf898 SHA-256: 3924fd9366265e55aff61db213e023a749a9c4e7f9e274630ba691ba062fda7a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded file and script payload suggests it's designed to drop and execute a secondary stage. 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
7de5c782556b81406741b0bce2bd5a9a753f821fd9c9d5bec9d0db66599f8010
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11458 bytes