Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488178a02ceaa39a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 359e27d6a863081d42568da8f2e8f45e SHA-1: 6c60cc5b40d28356b97d9b4b95ad0162e33a1138 SHA-256: 488178a02ceaa39a664a5222475e7256eac52fb6059112076ad662f92b9af948
126 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, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a known vector for PDF exploits. The ML classifier's output of 0.999996 provides high confidence in the malicious nature of the file.

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
e50562624e11161163af9ac9e77e6512bab71b4dd88004af45ac386c9c94acb4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18853 bytes