Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 468adda2a107ff7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 31889cc2e5fdc53d2b67b1a6d5ddb6ee SHA-1: 2673b7d895eed6d7c6c8e26cd7aeb5436c1e9fcb SHA-256: 468adda2a107ff7bd4d2643880c06adc9c804bf35ab01779a6db6d6a5e28fb11
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload. The ML classifier's output of 0.999996 indicates a very high likelihood of malicious intent.

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
87a32a7b4063f268cef7e300023c88d5c943198cae2ffe159a487703381de579
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18895 bytes