Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eaaf0f0e9fb063a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 5b1682792de5259fdcbee12bb152acfa SHA-1: 9a7e7d4b6fc4a50b3d6f2eb00b443fafb9fb5218 SHA-256: 5eaaf0f0e9fb063aaeaec18238f3f63a2f24d49e5ea63ccba92a56c30e4a622b
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 engines, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability. The presence of an embedded file and script payload suggests it's designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The benign URLs found do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
2640310746ca5719ae0389ad285fe17e17824df47d2ca270c69d03bef8ce3d2b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11496 bytes