Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a99f5fa43453046…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: a4075efe3f9ca53c6f07799bb169c317 SHA-1: e79130c5c98a53b2882410fa58df25cbb8f11078 SHA-256: 5a99f5fa4345304608083c1b45c1ba577baf5f3ee96c1e59f29e266bc05a56b9
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML score. It contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities upon opening. The embedded file object is the primary indicator of a dropped payload.

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
16794a7a703480419334593864f3ba465f4215b527ae413b6e048eb3200d3053
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18713 bytes