Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f61d1dc2345f484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: bf5ee19a23fc929d8148c0f36db3b0e4 SHA-1: a03066f0ca6b918aa03d91e170eb9a4c44b2f974 SHA-256: 6f61d1dc2345f4846725a2cc697da44831c0ccda5892beb3d642296a894f96bf
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting an exploit and a dropped payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests an attempt to leverage PDF vulnerabilities for code execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
635e5c189e7cc22914bff4ab30488de2007d09c8f58da5367d3a917cbd951397
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11333 bytes