Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a3adea40d203478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: bce07043abb5f34a60fcac2ebb9f7b97 SHA-1: 8dd0b3b7c5e626ad24181539e79bc92c1b406cc0 SHA-256: 5a3adea40d20347831ea0c870d3177f67a7ef97157afc70be4a8d80db4c879a3
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating an embedded script payload within a PDF XFA form. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial compromise. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the embedded file and script.

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
5c1586ccad3c88957af31df2366a57765460d156d4078a5495ee6094615e10f9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11473 bytes