Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d200c0952b3ff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 1d68e45e05a48ae367d758f64f92f742 SHA-1: bcd8dca2ca0e3c6ff72fe6dc948c6b134a3a7573 SHA-256: 41d200c0952b3ff45b6e8504b9631e16c337562c4c231457b944a30d48a7ed87
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The presence of XFA form elements and an embedded script suggests an exploit designed to execute arbitrary code. ClamAV detections indicate it is a dropped exploit or agent.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
6a1fbd99b895170cb33537339a01a6d40b4a5d4c18ae4337dc30c0a7892f3148
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14239 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely