Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 483cb91f4d502b8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 9701d29c5985121736dbd15254c38ce6 SHA-1: 7ab0fac68c529e838ef709425ff83d7c457bcdd1 SHA-256: 483cb91f4d502b8bbb65a4e9a94f3ecae65c51d9eed2f0138b1976a681e996b9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The PDF contains embedded content and XFA forms, which are common vectors for exploits. While no specific script was extracted, the presence of embedded files and URLs suggests an attempt to download and execute a secondary 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
f2b220da1a3f351dfe40af70e8a9b6cae8bd9bd1f37ba44eabaf0723ec09fd93
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11344 bytes