Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d047d50a97bc5ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.8 KB
MD5: 125718cb22412570c208a6e60c541482 SHA-1: ee0f49443fd9be43c3d1b8fa638da805bbe6fcb0 SHA-256: 7d047d50a97bc5ca24953b55d77ece7068a3af0f1f3f28aa5d271da606a669be
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, flagged by multiple heuristics including ML and ClamAV. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809' ClamAV detections. The presence of an embedded script and the exploit-related detections strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
046e799c607033bde46fee0b5aa957d3cb171bd49814f626f4294d7855d81c84
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14426 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely