Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ca2d4894bb38487…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: e8f8f1f95f523d8f60af3b9707f5b456 SHA-1: 475d26b3e58c20d87f051d841840c461ba2a8719 SHA-256: 6ca2d4894bb38487c27361f3cd1b39246c6e3281738a166972044505e8c26b08
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests an attempt to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader to execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier also returned a very high probability of maliciousness.

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
c0b47c1cdd1810df4fdc7a0aca18a80e5f45df45466fcec9657ceb84a88782e5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19105 bytes