Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dbbdb032c71b8c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: f8efdeb4a68f07a9c1549e4b72b3278f SHA-1: 3989d5e0f0b8bdb67bd425408dc6b9c4e5267d86 SHA-256: 6dbbdb032c71b8c6b6d591030a88732bf28d6951aa37d950c6665b00bc50e97e
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'. This indicates the file is designed to exploit vulnerabilities within PDF viewers to execute malicious code, likely downloading a secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly suggests maliciousness.

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
a440407c94fd8c2948e4c4b887722285206c85717ce4e64e1071029131b334c4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11378 bytes