Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c347e808b0b1a08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: cb487182e7b91d15682c3f8ba4418e69 SHA-1: f6254c3e71f51d65c358026d52e549bc31708963 SHA-256: 7c347e808b0b1a08091340ff52fe3e86668b9db9aa0c228f0b824f9ce70f495a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The XFA form structure is also noted.

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 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
19ab625d918cf77e60a9639d24b62ec6f668f412d4a7af492dec2c1a9b80a318
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18975 bytes