Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66c7126272abf4bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 57399b72fa902f477a7bc4553940f94b SHA-1: ac1c2367ea7eeccbbc338b63e7a779d9e07ce2ab SHA-256: 66c7126272abf4bf0a2de0f0cefa7c53e3090a29a7871888e6dc7358691c98c7
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as an exploit that drops a payload. The presence of embedded files and scripts within the PDF structure strongly suggests an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. While specific URLs were benign, the core functionality points to exploitation and payload delivery.

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
682704cb7ae0dbb60dbb43e5e7f35d2b2d20c0751ad4d3cac2b867a94b0875d2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11467 bytes