Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c050f8b8e373e75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 9b57bae370ed256d80e303837cd5103a SHA-1: 40f9c78e10fc508569ca4dc747e4f7e0da7cbcd0 SHA-256: 7c050f8b8e373e750fc1ff91d81c0096e437466f83a9147cb0dc55876343545f
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability for client execution. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files further supports this. While specific URLs were benign, the critical ClamAV detection and ML score strongly suggest a malicious exploit delivery.

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
e75be429d2a9b5af9debd7b65bd2a1fdee5e863bca88b2579676a661b0d82c2f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11607 bytes