Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c9267b0dbbe8be7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 32d0c4e3c0f4f334a37901477af35c45 SHA-1: 5b7de1b82cefc9c9738549147864188558994d66 SHA-256: 6c9267b0dbbe8be750a9337380ff3b819572328b2f92a144b6cf1f281bc9b0c8
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and a high ML score. It contains an embedded file and an XFA form, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a client-side vulnerability for execution. The embedded file is the most significant IOC.

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
16a8814ec9a9f1697ec838a07e2af67bf2109ff3641e893124f5a9ed5159004f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11576 bytes