Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4093d1c11ba440fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 8c0bcff3e7496c6995e497a0e100e560 SHA-1: f9b11ffd9613312067ebec9c7470ea0ef9a8ffef SHA-256: 4093d1c11ba440fe2406b381072227265f6460315096d441fcb9068f78fdfbbd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates a malicious PDF exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to drop and execute a secondary malicious component. The embedded URLs are benign or unknown, providing no direct IOCs.

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
e7095098acaf51e855901e46e6d37fd9172369cffea8eab3fd2f2a48e4eee535
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11743 bytes