Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ad6ee0e6591f3b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 321a283c9feba1a2a6698af2000474c3 SHA-1: 7c0444582fb61f9d4e905663b38333c58e50b21e SHA-256: 5ad6ee0e6591f3b24f74b8b886eb362f910aff4d9132c603c13fd0663097ac80
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload, consistent with 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
0bfaf1fb0a38c1cd1ffadb064b856328a0394cf1adf19707dc74a771d5d2b18d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11663 bytes