Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e48faf2f8b4f2d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: deabd1ba2961ef27f793712f9f4ac414 SHA-1: 6f38fa1a641c3cd7a79f53358614933339afee58 SHA-256: 3e48faf2f8b4f2d7b1fb0f24382c4fbdefaefb900e14b32f8983be583dedce4e
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. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements also suggests a potential attack vector.

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
d4720e14c77e2bdb0d340dcd83699e79a38733ed3fe0965f8f519869d5eb35d0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11195 bytes