Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a2c3ad580be9e68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: cfef0167a800d576509daa6d6c6656b6 SHA-1: b1dcc2071c1e9fff1cacb20bba9a2e679189cbc2 SHA-256: 5a2c3ad580be9e68d3319143134b096dd70a44dc6bfa08d15de25ae42e5d3956
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form suggests it's designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The specific exploit and payload are not detailed, hence the family is unknown.

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 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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 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
7243f2ba220a9e5eaf79f7bd2de8dbcf765eb56a34f7c33804e1e61086f0b3db
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes