Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 671b67a2823e0421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 07189c202705a29c1886bf9b3d05aeaf SHA-1: 56b4b9c4d880c5b7397b27bf94828e315e2a1943 SHA-256: 671b67a2823e0421659a8b2dad18c1053223cf2866ecea875f693f43de57c17c
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 ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded file object suggests it's designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. While no specific URLs were flagged as malicious, the embedded file itself is a primary indicator of compromise.

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
2ded76ac9cdd7dec978b6d73a56a32e12e61a329ef2e37e220e4569c87bcba84
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11672 bytes