Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bcb4e778261ed48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 64c51c76b2e2bd8d9bc9e599aa5e3d7c SHA-1: dcc2e5b45ebbd2ab4ae50a3b5c9f9b507c629ee2 SHA-256: 7bcb4e778261ed4834b6f2b2d31504b221b5f412a62e69b83613548cd272a389
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. While no specific family is identified, the file's nature suggests it's designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities to deliver a secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.
  • 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 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
b0fb46143fe427ffeaacae704a841a73576203a9063e8a90808b33fd54c866d5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11200 bytes