Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d30432494a5a382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: dcfb9eb9ae1ffcde442734c1570996a0 SHA-1: 138b38f23088679dcebc0cdcd186d3b567af5200 SHA-256: 7d30432494a5a3821bb71a48fa3edac09bbc52475cfd2cda56fe4e53b1ef303d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary payload.

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
72b22126af1e0a0040655c86665efe876b1d9228bc5b176f5e490659d05950c7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18800 bytes