Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa346953a7af8ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: d231e0095d3b9e9beb133d9c8e9db57b SHA-1: 62be792c9c930567fc6200e110e70955eadac897 SHA-256: 5aa346953a7af8ef1d087b210711b0652ba4ee4ce3fa42c2805b6281e28bcbd6
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The script likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial compromise.

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
1a5a89f673271ee17431f723bb537227fad573ded1fd066576b699703816c042
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11663 bytes