Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6681b6f0033f2273…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: fbacdf97d932adc4f991c8387289df51 SHA-1: 9e48d4e29857b4434dfecab6be7585ea69ca800e SHA-256: 6681b6f0033f227371d1a0e098a61c3f28ee2097532ee7967a6b123ad3c25d43
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 engines, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads indicates an exploit is likely present, designed to execute a secondary payload. The embedded file artifact further supports this, suggesting a dropper functionality.

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
a10f24de833195a24fad13dbbebb92ae797ab452aa56216b0b46353eec89f5d2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19117 bytes