Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44b7b03e9ec5a3a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 32726af3c7a32e8fef82b2731c223bbf SHA-1: e18cbf2dbc8b02ad60a4bee1305052066e7d1dc9 SHA-256: 44b7b03e9ec5a3a3305cc6b296103742d4615589f221070dd30c567ef6a3ba8f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The embedded file is likely the delivered payload.

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
4a583997622ef46ecaef03bb98481677f80db50b8ee2ce922fa62e78273cd911
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11277 bytes