Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cc4ea2b72587854…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.9 KB
MD5: 90e38f4e0c5a22f740e4a7c5fd851502 SHA-1: 9e3b12255cf890a526482dfe3a17e8b2fb719bde SHA-256: 6cc4ea2b725878545360b958fba994eec414230145e53bdb807552b7c2f46123
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs extracted do not indicate malicious intent.

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
f30d4ee413610795478fc0152188a5ed108352acc3b975f963872dd2e1ccd507
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18565 bytes