Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f398e5872f63189…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: db14f2986140a2324372159b9a1db59d SHA-1: dea5dbc997b33d9e5584fe745683c454180ae3de SHA-256: 3f398e5872f6318909c07f1d1cf6ae31d561f5746019ad974d80b5db3c1ebe26
126 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 ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malware. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs, though some are benign, are common in PDF-based attack vectors.

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
883a28131f1c0c01b0044b46110eb7bf5bc64ae70970c3c25b79fc4ca95ec46c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11637 bytes