Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 469d11730f2fb617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: e8b81325b76129adfecb44aa19497550 SHA-1: b25de1bd8168defeb49d806607e18aff893015bf SHA-256: 469d11730f2fb617c25b8e652fbda4772d00455d8500115da6ebc1bc66e5e8d9
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF structure.

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
933f6bbd88e4a28b8f85644093a0cca5aefa1a1249492e2e6830712d18833629
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18844 bytes