Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c9161116e7c977a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.4 KB
MD5: ae33ac1453e75d0ae5c241f86340a363 SHA-1: 24749a40d620a89a7038e535a874433e14e62c47 SHA-256: 5c9161116e7c977a99b801afe92ff003301b069e8b87d9ec5905ab98dd224566
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form with embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics as a malicious script payload. ClamAV detections indicate it's an exploit that drops another artifact. The embedded script, though truncated, appears to be JavaScript, suggesting an attempt to execute code or download a secondary payload.

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
0a0dce91bb94677928583d93ff9c4a6359df1efde5cfa171bdf84697684d599c
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18066 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely