Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 823b0317886b7d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: d0836b6525caec9c9c8c85f0bd5a2142 SHA-1: bef38c7de1d7f6c18b7c583b35268e5ccc63d3ef SHA-256: 823b0317886b7d7f0d63154fe1e0e36db30ba07f6e5fabe283d454c39e8d6f08
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The benign URLs do not appear to be directly related to the malicious functionality.

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
445b273508d834367945e11c99f7cb12b25cc729dbaa85609b726e3f6b5ef1b3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11608 bytes