Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 458af990c184f005…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: dfc0ee64268e8dc5f3ddb8bde620a2eb SHA-1: d7f229d5185fcab6b217c9463a8f220a85cb3ff3 SHA-256: 458af990c184f0051fd271b77b1ecbfbc597909a27a885b0b907bd2db3236615
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The embedded script appears to be obfuscated and its exact function is unclear, but it is likely involved in downloading and executing a second-stage 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
6f21e319afd1fc42d50c418d3d8f15d86645367c13dc4a27abf0d9b0af4a65ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11322 bytes