Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d858c740a9ca93b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 085f7c2a13a9e4c5594f910ebcfef50e SHA-1: bcf27e91718ba3a14fa6ae15f7348f1920e4ad26 SHA-256: 3d858c740a9ca93bc22812a7fc9065c58fee25c257d5929512e3d6f5c0659e8e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it is designed to drop and execute further malware. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with PDF form structures.

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
d2d26538199ac957c3bafce2c48f73e41d73bf6a03baa62d18948c403d2cd665
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11265 bytes