Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 566bc5b0590fc424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.2 KB
MD5: fa7041c5dd36609fffb869322de46a0d SHA-1: bc2f53d96aa44f3312a776ce2592a407fe32abd3 SHA-256: 566bc5b0590fc4246bfc29328f5c5f801249955147dee9054b68d18f065c4b7d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The PDF contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating an attempt to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded objects further supports its malicious nature.

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
0ae204b2b6a633f8f21fb5f0b9a72aeec3abdbd7286ce0173efa089ae7edef3b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26072 bytes