Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58e54c0732a42df9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 709ff8243d0e704b61530c6a78ab1054 SHA-1: f2a3df4526403856e19b913553efcd2c67e80bf6 SHA-256: 58e54c0732a42df94d456179eb342d4bf4c2a9c079677a178ec7d6bf3128cd18
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1553.005 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

The PDF contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, suggesting it's a known exploit dropper. The embedded file artifact, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is likely the delivered payload. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the malicious nature of the PDF.

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
3d4cb9665aec10698a63da57bb0efcf205d7fa20fa0c300222f4ff1c8ad2c3f0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes