Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a1cd1c4feba37a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 925c9375e1d53e30148c9cee90a95b6b SHA-1: 881cc5648274b9d1d0a89f23f43ca3faebfe87b6 SHA-256: 6a1cd1c4feba37a205ea21c2b07b9d8f23ac31ed73d7155ae38ff7727be010e4
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 a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', and an ML classifier indicating high maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download 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
97c4cdfeb48874af2a63079d75c70cc91b533b77ed765a98b812937ccd878572		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11384 bytes

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