Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 733d2f3abd20b562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.5 KB
MD5: 809e49a3d010d868e7944697c8deb1b2 SHA-1: 8500e08626b4056b0020bab91cd3350d5a77c285 SHA-256: 733d2f3abd20b562976e003734f9d0c980d7201fed1fc42569eaf0eca9e27ef6
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 multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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
4e5474660867cde720340ed74d2251a61f8d281f9d286036692fd824e2e8f362
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19167 bytes