Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77bec7e39c737a30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: efaa8c2a492a98b5addf29bcc960642b SHA-1: fe9dfee0e142e9ae2c79824a85731c51394f7a7a SHA-256: 77bec7e39c737a30ffc26695c106a7a61949be6eaa6ee45a01ad4e4e167fa8c0
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious-Embedded Application

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The presence of XFA form elements and an embedded script suggests an exploit attempt to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
6bf599418ca4b56436d6efb111b44b7bf179b6c232ee88af21277c1412a1f88d
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14225 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely