Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4367bf15d83a540b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 268e4aaa4178ebbe3557dd6f84b652c0 SHA-1: 120b011445364849a40f1e1966bc91f60dbb0a43 SHA-256: 4367bf15d83a540beb8e3fb202ad5f727197500e61083cbf63a50ab73c0ba213
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, suggesting it's designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary malicious file. The embedded file artifact further supports this delivery mechanism.

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
552c6eafbb7dc653d7dda99531cc4fceed3877496a79a3b749c02df64798c8f9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11739 bytes