Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c610dee4ca993a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 985140db2334b05618336ac22fae76cd SHA-1: a4a334e6c42381c707c4a761ea97cd957b43bab7 SHA-256: 7c610dee4ca993a12b29f765c23a547e598a97533cc23fbd8c4fa75f256a2961
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs found do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the other findings.

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
59da60fcb2c26cadfd2c1337169a34ca6a0153d3c7fdc77b015b894bbff0d426
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes