Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81d29f0fb1c4674d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 04315eaa02f96ab60884a47ed59ea9e6 SHA-1: 9715fbb51bfd571d6d10fb57f8a35b70d9e2a90f SHA-256: 81d29f0fb1c4674d500dd1dba93ce67cfa102e43426e4287bafd593405b9ad57
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it's likely an exploit. The presence of embedded objects and XFA forms suggests it's designed to execute malicious code upon opening. While specific URLs were benign, the embedded file and exploit detection point towards a payload delivery mechanism.

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
f2c31075af02becd267e9b688906861b36dfdfe3c46f5f67188f9acc81994321
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11273 bytes