Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73f7dd91d4c971d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 8d05dded7e2bd319ddda893093f19bf1 SHA-1: 5ab8e0062cef60259725b6a32300dfbef9b3db2a SHA-256: 73f7dd91d4c971d224ca1e84dc9a8059d7d1a1def55e00ab4dd98eb39da3da89
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 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. The benign URLs extracted do not appear to be directly related to the malicious functionality.

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
bf6d00a594bc687ffa29cebb82b4b0fd8ac190c203318447216e2264e55fc025
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19110 bytes