Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e62fa5462082f98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: fb9b52661a35c67ba4c3b870cdf3c47a SHA-1: 8de5a8f9781766341617466305c4c2423fc68d2c SHA-256: 6e62fa5462082f9837d94854dadfa8087b66162a0dc9f688ade665386a0e4cab
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', and an ML classifier with a high score. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files indicates the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the other indicators.

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
fb034b106e0c99a5f4a6053dcf4aeb9250ac9df470317a33b64cbc785fd58ee4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19005 bytes