Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cad4b8e80eff10c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 170a970266c9b89355069e5c3c18536a SHA-1: b7ba7f4ee121ef0677c393edf4146997ed18de3b SHA-256: 6cad4b8e80eff10c0de8ab924f7ccee6af8b86f143955eec777eda8230f359d0
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded script content and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities within PDF viewers to execute a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded scripts suggests a common technique for delivering exploits.

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
86f000598eb3013751b6f6d29f9f76e15cd6709df81a49321b79ec2115805d5d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11333 bytes