Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ec284150d10019b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 11d22940b47b47db71e895f3cafedea6 SHA-1: fb04c313d393ca1601a97adbf5ef4b2742a67444 SHA-256: 5ec284150d10019bc3c63f676ed78897f5d3e1603311d75b30e29feba281d3da
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests the document is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The benign URLs found do not appear to be directly related 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
8d46072dce7ecaec20aa22193d95b390c37d8d5559b005fd17ccc20190359a8d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18921 bytes