Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d2d698bb39c3519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 371f75a9aa1efabb469db3a951e91d6d SHA-1: 319b281e7f65eabe2d3c51abd89f6495a0f96b2f SHA-256: 6d2d698bb39c35194708c7fa0bc5294b97b7293f3088f793ab095fded01c904a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The benign URLs found are likely unrelated to the malicious functionality.

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
965986e5e6c8e9fc9d3b2f4c7c379b5b2ffaa760de202a217306acd175598a59
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11725 bytes