Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5248d84a8b3bda3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 272dd26136a6c9149ac60d8bd7b2164d SHA-1: 9e707448aa7c2f864e093e7177b2fb70b1ec4fd8 SHA-256: 5248d84a8b3bda3a0ab1f6c1faeddcee42cd0fd822a580ffd06319945ae6baec
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and was flagged by multiple detection engines, including ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. The embedded file artifact suggests it is a dropper for a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
d056708affb5cc126fb16f1d2410641e9d3fdf39b4890c7ec3c6a4ef926f0eca		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11163 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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