Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ded0817adf09baa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 05f34c967d3e1907a42ad8fc36d49cba SHA-1: 95469bf32afe28646cb0069ff51b760f8d62ef26 SHA-256: 6ded0817adf09baaf1d7be3bf1467f85aac073ea40092caae867ae8c66c6c008
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV specifically detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary payload to the victim.

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
4d5bba53808eac1679aabd434b57d824f23f7a335eb00188440272bc030dfef3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11342 bytes