Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72c066ef39c64c96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: ee700720a81ebc124bfb52ea9d29fcad SHA-1: 2bd0b1d0d7f47e782c8b7e187fef6cadf2134d13 SHA-256: 72c066ef39c64c96cf9ae333c314cc88b0aa44f4336833f9b737b00d7823c9cf
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 a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary 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
cfaf419b8c5702753be20c6536d3c2fc55d2f23d230f0aed63e6adedeceecb20
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11351 bytes