Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 416b106b718b7d7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 59c30c2692ab501b991adeb772f61e78 SHA-1: 5d9d9947aef351c96ae30a09f6d8e36f82f55de6 SHA-256: 416b106b718b7d7c8409349444c5fd2a7056cb42ac14048f49c04172e257f2e8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. Heuristics confirm the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The specific exploit and payload are not detailed in the provided evidence.

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
8d0fd922a2472de4ad7b3218ce22b7e9cba7809bb8856109be1a85247d3ffd36
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11543 bytes