Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 531a44b24b578c09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: f1fcaa5558485c3a75eab88319d4d1b3 SHA-1: 0d3593cb3b6fc6d63952323a7767789c0353331c SHA-256: 531a44b24b578c090604b4b1c5cf413adb1ed6d7200690d52fabbdb68dea33bb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score. The presence of an embedded file and an embedded script payload strongly suggests it's designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the primary IOC.

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
9c7589d9eba831235a171808d3a9b3eda1f711dda050e24bb29fb0295cf0d95c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19112 bytes