Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f8cb944b5e11975…

MALICIOUS

PDF

25.9 KB
MD5: ef80e532fd3065d56c117165a32876d4 SHA-1: ecd8d46772017cf9c67e4ca83d6d66bf0cee3442 SHA-256: 6f8cb944b5e11975cf9928c96cb3fde8d17d16901c15e5cd8cb7fa118466fe87
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 ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form suggests an exploit is being leveraged. While no specific URLs were confirmed malicious, the embedded file is a strong indicator of a dropped payload.

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
c30666ca56aeedb1abce9c515257777b78821c9b4705815d1d84b5b8405b77f3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 25771 bytes