Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bfdf9838889660a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.6 KB
MD5: 1f7fd043e7f48f8b9491a660ee29d475 SHA-1: b491a80da18d2cb1305b3f095128fad66c2d5091 SHA-256: 6bfdf9838889660a2ab093f1d57d748d3f3b47e117353f21dbc24b5458403613
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit a client vulnerability and download a secondary payload. The benign Adobe and XFA URLs do not appear to be malicious.

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
1e23105796efe0112a08fb878b748a885b13280372d4cb636aedf00f52ff8a47
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18309 bytes