Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ce7459ea9e30ee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: eac1f4098004fb05df063b2d1064e914 SHA-1: 5cfc535e21c39c6d06d26759305b381ecf88a808 SHA-256: 7ce7459ea9e30ee909babd714d506615f52984c51ab586aefdc3db2066bf8c7f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with a high probability of being malicious and was also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body content is not indicative of a specific lure.

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
ba5b31cd7cf7931e18563a6f138a0a415f6d7fc6ccef9cb730d4d2794b0071fd
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19130 bytes