Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c6f18518f9a5872…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 5441322e5811ebd10829a5a9d2d0e15b SHA-1: 3a7cc504d8a9c110f0d34f2356268c0757ba97cc SHA-256: 5c6f18518f9a5872f57a565f4ea51fee73d69e975e00f9e5c1efd32f235205b5
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded content and XFA forms, common characteristics of malicious PDFs designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded script payload suggests an attempt to download and execute a secondary malicious file, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
e77c994cc69799c35631676f58b9925139e46c7a03480ee8f7329fb8120580b4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18876 bytes