Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60c2b1046cf5ea99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 9d1734475119d628f0371ed20db4de03 SHA-1: dc7afb657a681062715896d38b5564ed12e37293 SHA-256: 60c2b1046cf5ea99c6d3ea1fccad7bd5fd6e998ae12f98f49f75b5f76341cc84
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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
cb6ec556a8bb06ef9b0f339be3a48d769c8080ca04690dc5870e7be388567956
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11348 bytes