Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c16305c315dcbbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 6597a43fe5225b8e8a99d3b0b36cc71b SHA-1: a6617cf8882ff7fa9a3f80f6bae10ac16f33d11c SHA-256: 6c16305c315dcbbf47371e2ac8bec2329e920a42c724df0b677cf71ba108bb3d
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classification. The ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for exploiting a client-side vulnerability to execute a payload, and the document was likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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
3b2ec0373349ed27b207b9b38c300830b29bd325ec594754c1e9b05299bf4cff
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18863 bytes