Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d0f622ba72d3eae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 3b7886d9025115943e7c3e2544df1f9c SHA-1: 3b9cfaa087d2b5cd408336f9fac9c6bb03736b48 SHA-256: 3d0f622ba72d3eae9b62d82c0421154ba96302a2242cc6c0b5053d7f7583492a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it's a known exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The XFA form structure is also noted. The exact attack vector and payload are not detailed in the provided evidence, but the file's structure strongly suggests it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into executing malicious content.

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
51571cd69aaaa6247f5b2bd815ccde77d565866b7be84ab38dc9b31309568c98
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11242 bytes