Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c634a3e832b4b5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 17dd2b96a6dcb564b0522c027b85e2e4 SHA-1: 14e9f991310e39b5b9e0886a8170dba1204a5ac9 SHA-256: 5c634a3e832b4b5a8399e3122dcf117e3105c4cfcf6ad944ec9062fc92917427
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. It contains an embedded file and an embedded script payload, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the embedded artifacts and heuristic firings.

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
7e1b1e8b76527341d4913368d571270cbc3be10c781f5be391508f67428ecc13
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11335 bytes