Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e4b7fe870e597af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: c2b22ab5a16d1f846fdd7e7d247628e5 SHA-1: 614cd62b363f284e472d30e2db95af0635aa082c SHA-256: 5e4b7fe870e597affd16158ddbb037b8def8985baefbd5407356c7e1500b97a4
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including an embedded script payload and an ML classifier. ClamAV detection indicates it is a known exploit for dropping malware. The embedded file and script suggest an attempt to execute a secondary payload, likely initiated by exploiting a PDF viewer vulnerability.

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
5e989d2256a22f11495fa34fe8a7fd1999bd90d5125318b7aa061a87e196f604
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18887 bytes