Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bb445475f1f672f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: aac3759f0083a61cb8ebc84e41eaffb2 SHA-1: db8ce49f41eb3441f7ac6bc207e423f34737ff94 SHA-256: 4bb445475f1f672fe9be0a917efbaa9927ee8743f285cd0fe312bdbbf1c79964
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, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute further malware. The XFA form structure is also noted, which can sometimes be leveraged for exploits.

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
935822a47291d2b01d67383c8a78676c1faad66b87182a500a8c02e4388f9570
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11573 bytes