Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73c14f9dd98173f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: 0ef922a6cb9fe904c43d6b67a4ff7fd8 SHA-1: 984ccb720dffb0334bc05289440eed6c0789be90 SHA-256: 73c14f9dd98173f14f7b7eabaa26775bc61767e33da7ccf53d56ba6c323b0e05
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', indicating it exploits a known vulnerability. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded file and XFA form suggest the PDF is designed to deliver a secondary payload, likely executed via exploitation.

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
0c49b63058629e1474c6e6be33e4e5a067d0de88299ae8f6eeccb076436f73d7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18987 bytes