Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae968b68307381d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.6 KB
MD5: 6fbdbe5e61b92e984581344c19bc5f9b SHA-1: 86662fe6867b9e6225db03ee740299792fcdeba6 SHA-256: 7ae968b68307381d2db921dd5a4993e19d201af2550859531268223864c5a820
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier output of 0.999996 indicates a very high likelihood of malicious intent.

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
f795c66e865de1c34e7901c764691a15b3413b8a7c42c883c469b46877f02944
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19283 bytes