Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79e313c842f8b559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.8 KB
MD5: 05853b9b04c1f76577cd0e0115e693d1 SHA-1: ad03558e88315fb5e48d390fa9c649a7dfc1c6db SHA-256: 79e313c842f8b55904d8bc61755963755493c5071239658535075a42b496dc7b
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample contains XFA form elements and an embedded JavaScript payload. The JavaScript, although obfuscated, appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary stage. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://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
1d07ff8b7900c6a849424e564230f54b4d286314f46583334c49620fa9eaded0
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 126071 bytes