Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a9c833450f2fe4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 560b40dd1bd30f405efe3458ddc55273 SHA-1: 5da2524f9b6f85651791e8f140f1fa82dc5cac65 SHA-256: 6a9c833450f2fe4bee92b284b04d5421eb5da93847d6d6826f1ae04518f9acb6
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classification and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a client vulnerability and execute a dropped payload. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
bae900ec3878479235a3cf5aafefd44111840fc15d913f80afc6635525b812aa
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11192 bytes