Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f66cea4780c627d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 2b0eb2b2ce3d6d4d4b083b7fce656635 SHA-1: ea6f1c0162ae075b0cc955a1be08e6022e7c3578 SHA-256: 6f66cea4780c627d270432bff0b1e77eff786a7c37dba6ff925cadcedfe30f09
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting an embedded exploit. The presence of an embedded file and script payload indicates the sample is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely downloading a second-stage payload. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious 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
105b4dbf4e37b32296f002aad5ae74dd11d3923bfd00e4258bb55003d77f2afa
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11265 bytes