Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 735878ca9a13bc66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 45acb9218cd1060c2e9a340524cf519a SHA-1: 52681ee61745274f174b2a243d275f112ee4efe2 SHA-256: 735878ca9a13bc666266b4ff6cde87c6b84b13a84ff4ca835d0f72e0ebc41a2f
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 high maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download 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
cdf056a0506a53be4e189cea2e982299c954f3d4575439f1c1366b34e8e6e4bc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11500 bytes