Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50a7f9dbba8ca9e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: f10d56c61508642b1cd5907bb4481664 SHA-1: 345ff126f1f8d1dc41116e84f3e7395e405d3383 SHA-256: 50a7f9dbba8ca9e1595ee60548e5b421582a2f75529eb5b10e0f6de8e3d4689f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Static analysis revealed embedded content, including a script payload and an embedded file object, indicating the PDF is likely a dropper or exploit document. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests an attempt to leverage PDF vulnerabilities for initial execution.

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
a52fce79eb6a0503d5386f0dc6b7562223a3b89c9aef9382c27eedff7a921886
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11670 bytes