Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67236d6624f1a206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 1609682712a3795d1cf45ec30714203b SHA-1: 4c408a05038bc5b1f57b71e1009b3b5ee6c8e3ee SHA-256: 67236d6624f1a206582e7ebd8f2086023a9cc633a560b6af4678e3b86bd90ca7
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The benign URLs do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
c890e067bb4ea7f06d335a0ac83cf5470e0a5cc6dec6194f6a86f8ffc7110742
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19073 bytes