Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 693dcd3957f8123a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 88472f74665383e15f0f93193369f0f9 SHA-1: af600c39298fca4ba8bc6dd176f354ad7ac00554 SHA-256: 693dcd3957f8123a413d332aac3b9e7494f298d4d0a3bd8827a82418e41ce6be
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities in PDF viewers to execute arbitrary code. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the heuristics.

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
591fa2133de01aca2daa285c1cf81aacf2f24c0ad4185664a99466e03c3954a4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11424 bytes