Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83698d43ee0a4d1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 9ce5bb2100b1cbfe6b07598e7d81a980 SHA-1: 4c7170fb2457b1a1c8588fd19052e0980e0ed31e SHA-256: 83698d43ee0a4d1f8108ba75034fa04046b9d2cfcab7e7d166442e62a08677c7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute further malware. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF's structure.

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 script payload in PDF stream medium 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 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 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
40d7342448e774fbd38e93d97b617f87a57375e0958d17b9aa0162354d591a98
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11190 bytes