Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80750290b5759b05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: f8037c32e9365dfd9bf54832d09e5070 SHA-1: 9851c063cbe69e5b8deb03c082edc9141993b688 SHA-256: 80750290b5759b05a28f933c0d14c78fd7b592dc70d5ff97510c7e32669393bc
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The ML classifier also indicates a high probability of maliciousness. The embedded file suggests a secondary payload is dropped, which is likely executed via an exploit.

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
df7f09a39629e28c988f98f0bf8dc2dddd2a2153ce6cb95959409f04aeec8d3f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18915 bytes