Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64ab8f10fc8ed712…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 6216da6fa3a26d50aa133f1417060b9e SHA-1: df939e5f2384dffd3c5afe2d19f9ef88b3fce056 SHA-256: 64ab8f10fc8ed7120bd686ba5e1bef173a18ac3a8ec87a61700f7200def896c7
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute further malicious code. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded script suggests the use of JavaScript for exploitation.

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
1b9b1a8757cfba06f09c1f321d494c1bde458f4061dc2672dcc7dbd96e739ce0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18908 bytes