Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b5bbc9268e31e2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.8 KB
MD5: a8c9d54dd7be5908937d1cf5b1b1dbce SHA-1: c960dbe742a8f798b44caa982f68202c7fa0c190 SHA-256: 4b5bbc9268e31e2cbdb0fa1468d22bda2636537699bf89e035be22942e297643
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV, which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The presence of an embedded script payload and XFA form suggests an exploit is being leveraged. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
b83ea59d0cba1be03777382eb4916fac501500c6c04b46d5413cffe0c172cdab
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14439 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely