Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6db6828637bad1e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: a500b0ae2a4822c4ce5702fbf58b6bca SHA-1: 41d8e477deb1136917dbc57d29ce5f53264ed279 SHA-256: 6db6828637bad1e4d964151793de0370773b9d1ad1f657cc92e3eaa087473dab
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' firings. The presence of an embedded file further supports this 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
9c10469b0088645aa3f541de328b43abce8411fd4c0b35eb48d38c91ed41ee6e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11606 bytes