Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dc72e8b77577ced…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 228cd7ff9d580505cb59a8b8bab55fca SHA-1: 5485d374270607e0caf01abc10928182c8adc618 SHA-256: 7dc72e8b77577ceddc6e69fa3a9d7047a894139705572e8bd6386dadea56d1c6
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF with multiple heuristics indicating it contains an embedded script payload and is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. The embedded file artifact and the ClamAV detection name suggest it is designed to exploit a vulnerability and drop a secondary payload. The benign URLs present do not appear to be directly related to the malicious functionality.

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
9b429d030341daaec229fd9b2b01f59f4e9c6bb7afb8be742f6e19aa83294956
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11502 bytes