Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ed086b3d6677044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 257a164904ef7d185aab9a8556c927b6 SHA-1: 82cc82b5e1142d8d28fb7cc3cd283f36e0ea33f3 SHA-256: 4ed086b3d6677044eff591cd377455b9aaba158738e12003d702d1ea6767f746
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a known vector for PDF 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
3aceace92455d24e8ea30ffa5e35102c56b736adddc8e9093a30b220dc867567
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11261 bytes