Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cb584eb608e13d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: c8f9c53b00c54fe105b7b3dcb19cc183 SHA-1: c9000082685e35f28d55fe9fff892f2c25bb0eac SHA-256: 5cb584eb608e13d53314aaf261974a296f1bdcdd9c407a38641e40566d0077a3
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded file is likely the second-stage 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
  • 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
976c886659e1e4a7c64e6e65f590225edb6463d1eee093d84dd6c29411c72a54
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11146 bytes