Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b436c8c882c6cad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.3 KB
MD5: 0234a865b016c770258f4d5eb76dcba8 SHA-1: 52880878b69cc3cc3663f4c0d54e78538c6cb21a SHA-256: 6b436c8c882c6cadd809ab02fc9426180afeddfc36c6dc96054c7c2961b204e9
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability, likely for client execution. While specific URLs were benign, the overall structure and detections point to a dropper functionality, hence the unknown family classification.

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
dd61e9472927f5bd5d53484c5a4a139b1f0379143cffe0196a7b576d0480025b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 27157 bytes