Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54c1548da363cd41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: e90b8a676c2a59b58fbc402324f9009b SHA-1: 6bef8f04e2025baa8c534c0b6c78aa3a2f57ba36 SHA-256: 54c1548da363cd41ce871de44ade2c82752aea34b5df68f557af74c3234cf094
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download or execute a secondary malicious 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
a7c987cac4a0a12889a5279a98a3f85eda7515f4d9e9e6c8c6738dd49d8dcd4a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19069 bytes