Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6848e8ef16bcb310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.5 KB
MD5: 89b5c73073681bbc6baad8e4f5fbe510 SHA-1: f783db95be0d7448dc38003f4eb2d47e8dac2ffb SHA-256: 6848e8ef16bcb310ead4f3e869ce40e82a5d689ffdd18f9008a54abe6171c0ee
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to execute a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded scripts suggests an exploit targeting PDF reader vulnerabilities for initial execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
6750669e8ff7ded602900eff29d32f767a8fc179e39b6c616a214d19aa17c1a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19216 bytes