Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49c18888fa077e69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 6bc422b6dd189e3b3f34607a60e311b0 SHA-1: 2cf9d4f6205fdb9606dc7e959fcf7816ca5ff6b2 SHA-256: 49c18888fa077e69a2997be394c2b9e8ed1265b8d9724ccee3ab7ea591086f36
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. Heuristics also identified an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the PDF is designed to drop and execute malicious content. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which can be a vector for exploits.

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
d9f41a7ae25e47fa86253fbb6ca876d9319b1cf78d3ba7ee700457c6c9545113
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11335 bytes