Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53ba4bf92306592e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 37cbee922b6c756ab871949125cbbd4c SHA-1: e122fc76b2473db3e7f5bddf4335b10043274f51 SHA-256: 53ba4bf92306592e770c63b75b731f72bef84085f2b0ed210477bd561ced8569
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within the PDF stream, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF structure.

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
ed72248888469bf357d05119ed936540f9fb46d3eba8ba57d7b6a882117c1b72
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18913 bytes