Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d0b381504577ac9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: f35a0c00f86be8082c03dd1503f9728e SHA-1: 7e0bf5b01ef767460421e65a859690dfced37ca0 SHA-256: 3d0b381504577ac9354ce1efd53efa4a0bcca0ecd8a7e9195de2891c8ae834ff
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely a dropper for further malicious activity. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is a primary indicator of the delivered payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
3d224ae4e34cf6df87fa6532cabd971788ab7a38724966fdd4f6fd6f010b7784
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11342 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).