Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7943cb3d4be96be9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 2f7cdb37d558d8718408f894b4014acf SHA-1: 8ee41ef9047b55dbcb786de3847839abb74c0a23 SHA-256: 7943cb3d4be96be98b8305e9f3f16c6b64b799b2a632deaba5f31ef8924055ad
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 multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and a high ML score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability, likely for client execution, and download a secondary payload. The benign URLs present 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
b4af3eaa2da6d6f6d64769c1e17f045fda166fc05d97a9facb1e6443e88f6456
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11597 bytes