Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cae1a5401cae307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 5c1ea2090be6eddf5f48fac6188af6ee SHA-1: 4e950a7ec24698edb4005a330a1677961cc67fa0 SHA-256: 6cae1a5401cae307f2c4ae8302f65e9b90839d3c8ed747ed15e5d20cb8b049bb
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 and a high ML classifier score. It contains an embedded file and an embedded script payload, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The presence of an embedded file suggests it 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
74d059c5ae7f2848805747b8de90e36330409ecd815d007822623f54dd45b093
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11364 bytes