Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74122c791de17351…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.5 KB
MD5: 280523dcd54de2cdb288ac01a921f8bb SHA-1: 9615db432704de01a4abc5d9196ff1e522af22b8 SHA-256: 74122c791de1735138efa6438efb5cdc55fe88d575bb2ba9c73bfa1b115b09df
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a client-side vulnerability for execution. The presence of embedded script and an embedded file suggests it's designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs found do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
784e51d35b49cecd6fec9b9263f16865d112d6955c38343c16a2f26dc6e2bc0b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19158 bytes