Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bb8da6daa72d3cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: d209e8047846ea56256d6dd8697bd89b SHA-1: 1ce04dd647ab325820e0f9a0ff4327430bf1364d SHA-256: 5bb8da6daa72d3cf4d7c3db3a8299aef2a3f1d5554e008b386fb5f6374dd84e2
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded JavaScript payload, strongly indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. ClamAV detections confirm its malicious nature, flagging it as an exploit dropper. The embedded script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common technique for malware delivery.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
a695a0ad3925e774572fbce64b2d9058bde85bb7c672c300e9050c84863fc1e4
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14293 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely