Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa80d11ac2fee62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.95 MB
MD5: 9a6b4ed76c371ee5ab5e8c73e4d9da43 SHA-1: a466860cb48087187a3dfa88e955c85b64fd591e SHA-256: 5aa80d11ac2fee6295e13da6ef3a2809aabd8ec60ee654e81e5db2a7a2a8664e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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
aafed3e6e4262bf16f518fe87b2a3082162ac8322d3d9495107fcf122fcb32b7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11244 bytes