Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b143e2ec64b07b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 5651846618ae04744d0341a2b8c3be1b SHA-1: 59d0ad4399f375835ddbe0036e67632e2c0ffd42 SHA-256: 7b143e2ec64b07b512f2068460e54713506a8305d353cf7ab654d2c7680b330a
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests a client-side exploit targeting PDF viewers.

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
fd2e752ee663087d76686c5da9b81c31aa018267936824813d96b42cd1de667f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11620 bytes