Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6af08c209382fbbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.3 KB
MD5: 3a08d2d0d194d83cf173b9d89d0a9aec SHA-1: f9165e38a318c9cab8b512fd24da0b92f1403f0b SHA-256: 6af08c209382fbbe00edaec06ed0c78195b174e89402d6829f2aff626d7a0b84
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_XFA and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to exploit a client execution vulnerability and download a secondary payload. No specific URLs or IOCs were extracted from the document body or scripts.

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
547fb1a01ebf5e8dd72c1530f55bdcce224d4d5ce87a7cd8caa6c91bd3693299
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26145 bytes