Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73aa3226083871dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: 9132788e6ac057ffefa207c958cea8fc SHA-1: e2fca122f5101ec41a73fa8f2cb4015feaf35e00 SHA-256: 73aa3226083871dcd3d49483755f49513ad4cac6e38767847a0faea3a1cc5f04
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, aligning with exploitation for client execution.

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
76ca2f784053385719b477ba698711e356e859eac2f7f5853eb1e47c4cb05a26
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18981 bytes