Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bf6fa6689d6febc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: d05bf75ccf90811c1b4bc78cf60d7e26 SHA-1: d1064f417b8def0672681a74559a5b94a65c5cb8 SHA-256: 6bf6fa6689d6febcea32bd77bf993914ac3252893afa678c3c8a4f426487dcf2
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 ML and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of embedded scripts and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The benign URLs found 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
5d87a062965cd8e33f861a97460dc1d455bb7db48f72f057e5ddc597e474a94c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19064 bytes