Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a49fbf6635d6ee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 4a767b10d6a02ca5ac049e57f6007467 SHA-1: f819cc13fab83324b586cc7e91eaf3c153711583 SHA-256: 5a49fbf6635d6ee25b91882f5e461ecdb394fa3739766cdb95ad076c31bb820a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. The ML classifier also strongly suggests maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports that this document is designed to exploit a vulnerability for client execution, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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
4f869f6400e6f01ba755a33ef28b5e514794b0be999d4dc91233daa4d8b71f07
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11522 bytes