Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 690147a449a0a092…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.9 KB
MD5: 64232b85fbebd421401192707b997299 SHA-1: 0b62a668fbd5e519a5c5ae525945daef3e536b7c SHA-256: 690147a449a0a0920888d06d77ebdee4cb24e2da478db6319d9df01333e6233e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it is designed to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further supports this, indicating it's likely an exploit attempting to drop another malicious file.

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
a9b72d61d1452a715af066429fe5968e679080e0c8b28f708016835b28252d98
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18561 bytes