Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 648d04f8a21b9fca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 81a6cfc3413684fbf2e1f7d2d54e618d SHA-1: f1879398b2cfbd8aaf23d56b0f3985de17dd2bb9 SHA-256: 648d04f8a21b9fca95c1a04b4985d7c5d77eb1980c7fce3f93cdbc7a257f3375
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file object strongly suggests it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload upon opening. The benign Adobe and XFA URLs do not indicate malicious intent.

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
10c5176c6d9d1863add959b29707e66ed1bf21ea59461e37308b7a4ddfdccb82
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11526 bytes