Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84ba0058dbb030d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: ca08b2de1d7b40a0b70ea6b83ba9604e SHA-1: 55160f7824155775ff47b3d012de0ff89494a51f SHA-256: 84ba0058dbb030d516bd1c5171efa34b21fdc3267f2ddcfddda78669b34b4a37
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. 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 associated with PDF form structures (XFA), which can be exploited.

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
b5ae085ddfce28969f057221ca9046d3f347791b767c200b988925c0c9b1cd8f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11189 bytes