Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48ec5f8e490ebb0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: da68680c7de6fd2cd13a1c7d2efed8ab SHA-1: 954b5ae6c2c294818dcfc40c2741b74bb4f49029 SHA-256: 48ec5f8e490ebb0acc57d16c1e683901fb4fe16cc7600d96312c10f7abb6ebc4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. The ML classifier's output of 0.999995 strongly suggests malicious intent. While specific script actions are not detailed, the overall pattern points to a typical exploit delivery mechanism.

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
bb40033452c5c7f412bfe3fbf7760261ea8b045322af24556359c9585731c9dc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11722 bytes