Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cefcf91f797943f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: a8dcaa3422471cc6425bd135f5d578aa SHA-1: 7d5b9e6c42b13cf96ae15818718da9b1d220b7d9 SHA-256: 5cefcf91f797943f9598d1eea1069dced70aba448dba93b6271af477ad45746e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple detection engines, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of embedded scripts and an embedded file suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The benign URLs extracted are likely unrelated to the malicious functionality.

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
933fa1ae9de4e3dffd15ffe2cbee6c9382ec48f5b26d7792bbf397eb05762c9f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18884 bytes