Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 567b24a2688e006f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 5d3090d2aff2619aceaca2bb46e143bd SHA-1: acfbb6025b0df88f0644c6e63e6dee15d1f8a3e1 SHA-256: 567b24a2688e006f97e73b8315ce7798c5f6c96ff619e5fb2afe695b970faf25
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates malicious intent. The PDF contains an embedded script payload, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files are common characteristics of malicious PDFs.

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
5d5c6183b511baada7c508096dfffe1297255387858d92ab981aa635c984bcd1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11719 bytes