Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71fa2f7b5152af8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 9775ba9eac0e67977eaa06f61e174137 SHA-1: e263949701f3930708fdf7421fce6c01f295b6fa SHA-256: 71fa2f7b5152af8faf0c59a94f8030b1c4c001e13645533f05aa46a352d65feb
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it exploits a known vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature, likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness.

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
216a3552f56e7cae21f3f4daf10154b3bf3122d7bcac34ff0d52256b1e685228
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18714 bytes