Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77a76db44b178f8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: f1ff82c21659f729de00827fa64c944c SHA-1: 049b7268163e013a71ddda05a30ebc53fa4c86a6 SHA-256: 77a76db44b178f8f6e6f35b2aff62511e1ba5749c62f90b8d114b79709695d86
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload, a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities.

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
2cd2561a14b9b3635242148f7b501c40bd6dca194bdba192ba9ca0b45bba0408
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11316 bytes