Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dfc6cc4beeb6568…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.2 KB
MD5: f0b65736efd1112bca14c1b58412616d SHA-1: 8b54d21bc132cd044d12951fb3fa872f822ced35 SHA-256: 6dfc6cc4beeb6568a234dbf39353b8d886272367e5dabe3b6a45132342cd22d1
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements suggests a potential avenue for exploitation.

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
62e54d1b3f1c36587e567fc529563573588edc2b36f4cbe6b28343cc9b86d74e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26062 bytes