Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3946bb6f424f02b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 5c79c2ab33c0473d13a045e18286bc4e SHA-1: 800e1fbd2e57302ebb64aef43170866ee530b36b SHA-256: 3946bb6f424f02b18488538d0e9fdd9c91eab0b0c7459878c58e4d6ef2f29f25
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload. No specific family could be identified.

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
80d2121974c6643c6cc7a9e68f2519cf659df5de2edd738dba1e9cf659347fa9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11182 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).