Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62b4601ddc4823a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 1a3ec17cbe691b5aef965d26a2571ac1 SHA-1: 6af5b983444c42549c3b33a4843b10882bb4108a SHA-256: 62b4601ddc4823a27a6fdf9373bb3d32c2b2a49fdd37aab54a429c38460a6337
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly suggests its purpose is to drop and execute a secondary payload.

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
645ae42480cd67f6c8356ac79ec035971c3b0737f67bbc7537b015aaf2640294
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11169 bytes