Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f57325b0b0bbdba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 4636ce1f75702f8c578ac35f6cc1895f SHA-1: 7e6dd3ae731d3a9b7c950f1a20c1b9ae72fdd79d SHA-256: 5f57325b0b0bbdba2d88008ad0a5c41ec53280fe8c7a1b6fa5d503cf56d90ac2
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded file and script payload suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
44a96085aec4a6aed9991c1ee6cd3ddbae8f3ffca1e7bc05d57142b3280bb105
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11248 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).