Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80da6ed4748a9423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: fe85375d8593e17519352936885aebaf SHA-1: 9509bcd70ce761694b0116b51c95ec8e4ed1ddd9 SHA-256: 80da6ed4748a9423c42418c61644854c3db6b9269282ec2145d8b24f89ad630c
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including an ML classifier and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to drop and execute a secondary malicious component. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the embedded artifacts and heuristic firings.

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
322d5bb0b3182f5d2f102b236b8fb9701300a4833db184f55283da7965c04d93
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19005 bytes