Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 674b40081f00d93a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: a9fd7efb64f72be9b37af46e104e6a0d SHA-1: ef1c9045fa37a1a454debbd2f5ded497b0a0efa6 SHA-256: 674b40081f00d93ab46f2e60fa5f246ebcd8e4883282ded1c62ae352d4d290ff
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. It contains an embedded file and XFA form, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities for client execution. The embedded file is likely a second-stage payload.

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
0f1956c13271e40bafa7aa9601d728c7a87ccaf3353b07cc2264fd5625dc54d0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11493 bytes