Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44c6e9366a559687…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: c0e06a7af915a62da3253ccda14b5f45 SHA-1: 7e43c0fae6e8c6d366eab4eea6c2efc8cc6aa33f SHA-256: 44c6e9366a559687d649d1e1a1bbce37dd732e9e87d41da7daba3fe357d51867
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML classifier score. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The embedded file is substantial in size, further supporting this.

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
94d2ee83637d5c19d6e09bdf3a295ca263ec2a270a6d6d14e88a096244514a41
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19038 bytes