Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e199914d1b04187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: a2f2bb06a6ab69fbdfa1b1407b956c8b SHA-1: 76cf92972d4a5cf5906676ef461393e28a1c06a1 SHA-256: 7e199914d1b04187862b8930d11e3185dbf3e7efb0ca1474c3529c28a6367d58
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts points towards exploitation for client execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
65b308ee360bdd8f3b81742c257efff91f57f68c0d04f240e5d12564c80b9d52
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11498 bytes