Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ea5bde758094332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.5 KB
MD5: 24b1a23c4f5fc2e30e19bb4cd1e2f538 SHA-1: 146b49a29c873f9bf010a6869bdab3988d07c9a3 SHA-256: 5ea5bde7580943328c5ce1abf8fea38a1dcfbc719535d15f787c8d62626b2c06
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the presence of script-like content in the DOC BODY. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of a client vulnerability to execute this script. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is the most probable payload or component of the attack.

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
3b8e058e1c7c5114ab4b6b657cade8d86ee063d46ce1b2dc3fa6ba5045c3e5c1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11026 bytes