Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d444ffeff74ed72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: 1909cf447348a74d767d205bd4dbb5fb SHA-1: ad3f566ec09e2e2b39c7930375202c2a408f8e7d SHA-256: 6d444ffeff74ed725916d4587b2812558741222fa08716e17334ee47637a8f7a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious PDF identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded XFA forms and an embedded script payload, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities in PDF viewers. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload.

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
5f6cbe0f6addc8ad8a98c1b90ca5f215e59e953d8d2bf8108d9d6f79ab94c66b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18998 bytes