Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7506b15d105cdc28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 020c0cf91bc42e3702bfc3e22b586aaf SHA-1: eee1d0d76982398ed2f3579333bba7631a69e6f9 SHA-256: 7506b15d105cdc28826b08dffc4961c2643368aaea808439f1a9bce6c75c9043
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML score. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files suggests an exploit targeting PDF reader vulnerabilities, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
946bddac33c5b09cfe48913572658562eac302aa698d008747a56852a04f1727
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11554 bytes