Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76b9970969d04aca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 4eecfd45e7519d31ab8c1076fcb64952 SHA-1: f024f7e4e39598823ecaaaabeeb0a49f831b9032 SHA-256: 76b9970969d04aca21eee5056b9cff2f1d5969634f34f69a70ecd813b94e012c
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute a secondary malicious component. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the heuristics.

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
9fabe5f50ba0319be89ee4dd8e2552367a73dad381bb23f6bc2a55a9cede6344
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes