Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 658f30a7e0c3e500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 2c8dc30aafcfc9fccff6146fe362d9e1 SHA-1: dbdbf7ea1904148e0b41c48fdb354d15d7fa8e8e SHA-256: 658f30a7e0c3e5001e55ec1fb32f089767a8401c70aae12c91af6a7bbef8a6bb
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The PDF contains embedded script content and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to deliver a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded file and exploit heuristics points towards a client execution attack, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
035e1b2edd53f8ca384989c6ce3d3310d554cf57737f6c68441d2849d86b2414
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18850 bytes