Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e0d981a85f89d9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.5 KB
MD5: 9df28422fb2cdec62f9816a62139d4d2 SHA-1: 84c3e58f6ebf4f9448e14e3270a88f0352368a7e SHA-256: 4e0d981a85f89d9c4846e8fa861affbb7dd4a7323b8628772a5c0fafd2f5057b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is intended to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF 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
  • 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
5aa38b19c57b36919aed4cb60369d5e9ebb083075255be0bf51e1149bd69c151
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11065 bytes