Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d5793fc3d605b76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 5a5b0c4c97f040c14f66de8de398ab85 SHA-1: 6bc9d05ed1e80ebac99022132d358dda77022c96 SHA-256: 7d5793fc3d605b7625cc061cf58f112fc4a1d661e9358756843e72e6fcc149ba
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded script payload and is flagged as an XFA form, indicating a potential exploit vector. The embedded file suggests a secondary payload is likely dropped.

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
ac945bb4461e16b3a5a831b535b490a5ab836ab2b791dbb9a9e4cc5ba22ec69e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11611 bytes