Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75d3a8c39666f84d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: ce8a05c62438b821a6cd285d92e5a811 SHA-1: ed8f76711563f7cd9131d1e192802b24bc0fe375 SHA-256: 75d3a8c39666f84d00e6ce89fd9d933487949bf0a740aeef8eef77661dd2275c
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded file and an embedded script payload suggests it's designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The benign URLs extracted 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
371089dac12b8afed6259136ff749992b30e71ab2cb1ee92711bb3655013ceea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11358 bytes