Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cecf2c42e0e1177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 2cdcc01db697860e9cd90646203228c9 SHA-1: e48893c93385dee58534612bd9f37aedc646a596 SHA-256: 7cecf2c42e0e11775f72bd0a197f62b50f2a7be516836857c21cca3a22388c2e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
0e02ce79d0afa328f15858287f753f326710958bef914923edb8ba6f57f3a3ca
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18805 bytes