Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68d5e1723cbf3ff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: eba68f4299a21d158b69f5cfca0244d7 SHA-1: 5fa5f53a4b595b806781d96b2c3379a62ca8d92a SHA-256: 68d5e1723cbf3ff9c5bdf83bfc500c47240e24d41fd4ce41848870a587fd1690
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. It contains an embedded script payload and is flagged as an XFA form, indicating it likely exploits client-side vulnerabilities for execution. The embedded file suggests it acts as a dropper for a secondary 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
706df807b68907c613595bbd67f82e8961dc9c86266aefe6949abc9d0db886d6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11190 bytes