Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aa4771a75115d29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.9 KB
MD5: 23a8e30ca78ea066c1f88178560a6e07 SHA-1: 104443bbfbb32e3bbec165aa3753314a956bc973 SHA-256: 4aa4771a75115d2931f6c9a73b7fd878328cdd51411d7ac243819402a733a6da
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability and drop a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements also suggests a potential attack vector.

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
3d3634c67dd7c07fe88fa78a4b109cf2ba1122af9a7082a259b47776f32fa7cb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18593 bytes