Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dbd956eec9af81e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 264192e7d6cd821d44cfc2478ea161fa SHA-1: 25b3a10f0421871e9c320aa4b72388425a9ea376 SHA-256: 7dbd956eec9af81e934832f44ff55b2183a1a72c34d6e43ce2b25d2514869817
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV with a critical severity. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded content and an embedded script payload, suggesting it attempts to exploit a vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded file artifact is noted as a potential 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 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
861c059ec6dd2a90f2547720e387e7576d088c276951ff3c57e8433e0e298b52
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19107 bytes