Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 812e72820da704ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 633b252ab3eb90a50f4a8090583eb067 SHA-1: 41b0f2318cfcb25bc2c52049ac82f0f1e1bb9220 SHA-256: 812e72820da704ed679db542509a66907a1f4384c3b0c0e0f34d01a0f1ba249e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score. The embedded script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, indicating an exploitation attempt against the PDF viewer. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious indicators.

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
7f9ec6cf283b8ca9450ea7378b206f3a4ff4e788f4c69473605c2872a3666277
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11391 bytes