Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56fe0ca30f2ec9f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 1c7571b59176b1dac9c53e9b430e92cd SHA-1: 43c060d9c6ff9f981af16327d3f8ee830e55b214 SHA-256: 56fe0ca30f2ec9f5855374d2cb10423570748b4e5ae0d621aabbee24bb1ab9c9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score indicating maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its role as a dropper or exploit document. The document body content is not indicative of a specific lure, but the overall structure and detections point to a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

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
bd4d2319eb02b78e8dcb092cf46e51efd6213e810b4710dd4474b9dbe256bd4e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11667 bytes