Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a9bed0f42b118f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 484b221798cd69e6bf9daa8155d34bf5 SHA-1: fe29be7e21af7617c649506318ac2b13de9da502 SHA-256: 5a9bed0f42b118f9aacc457af5e4cd886d5ea1c172a45fda105408b740e505d5
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, suggesting an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts points towards the use of JavaScript for exploitation.

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
4271121c705008c82174488d27a5411f628f75494d43e404b7c4c7649572824f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11244 bytes