Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513b9e247ce5c2e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: bd5d7c2b40d063194574e14a247f267d SHA-1: 19aae56b4f20847f427f9a75acd0f3ae603333f4 SHA-256: 513b9e247ce5c2e74f455ec4ef6b90d65ccd9cbb53ff4c234b65fe7fe631a81a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file indicates an attempt to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is the primary indicator of a dropped payload.

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
68400e134e9bc54a5ef36425fc02a2087612636ed3552fc86deab393b18bcd24
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11323 bytes