Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71a76877df629303…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: dce005cb61660f1b81778af5603c2728 SHA-1: b55e38e26c5957007509ca7797787bf2c81052c3 SHA-256: 71a76877df629303de89c67e13db8b7241a52546b46747eaf305f88aaef4f34a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file 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 likely used to execute a secondary payload. While no specific script was extracted, the embedded file is a strong indicator of a dropper or exploit delivery mechanism.

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
07449458437352482a47b8f04a67f8e45720e28b2d7755ee5c3289cb486097ce
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11333 bytes