Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a500de1d4614aee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: e1e28fa222a24a468918d7597af9b51b SHA-1: f85f18a988b7e63c80e7c188a8568f9fbf19e2e2 SHA-256: 3a500de1d4614aeeb7128a85ef35e7aa62af34aca1c9076e68624e4f103bfc76
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The PDF contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs further supports its malicious nature.

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
a2784539aa9909a0e6c7d403090177c78b071aef87c56f5feeb8985075fb7c27
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18774 bytes