Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d1d7bfe7dacef5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 5979c5df2f6b560069a42d00dd02d7b4 SHA-1: a3e6302b42ca9d9c8a38673e7df7ec9db43f57e2 SHA-256: 6d1d7bfe7dacef5c0b56dcd29c6b5b224fa207f4fbb121460de3171c19c44683
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded file suggests a dropped payload, indicating exploitation for client execution. Given it's a PDF, spearphishing attachment is the likely initial access vector.

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
8f81f95e8fd3b2e766ea3c0e562b1592ef79ff2b1f78b76454941e1874de06bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11436 bytes