Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80b16a2a8b5514d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 348eef2296a06e4ee0c4807b9b762ce2 SHA-1: c92c6ee3c13f7e1d926af30da7ee44b110b444ff SHA-256: 80b16a2a8b5514d0d8b133d1263172b0048c9c0be4fc77ca3460d31434b9b808
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains embedded content and an XFA form, which are common vectors for PDF exploits. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered 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
d09142a2faedef23c70021cfdf44daeaf6bca026290b15d719e69a521a4ba125
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11530 bytes