Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 510a7cb10589880e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: f662b71e6d5d6193e050816d80a3c0c2 SHA-1: 294426a6734f43afee7d6c22b702435cff6fee0f SHA-256: 510a7cb10589880eefa0b6fa3a5fd14be290907183d62d4da3de92acc62b6618
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded file and XFA form further support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs, while some are confirmed benign, are part of the document's structure that facilitates the exploit.

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
2f6edd58a22ea605db42cbb5113dd1aa8aeeafc150b25292a0353edecfc03b54
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes