Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 851abf29233b8738…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 1c67a8eabc8aa26d548db38994244ad2 SHA-1: 30ebf559fcb239d622a25d09798525204acaf022 SHA-256: 851abf29233b8738f9ad6a039c2c9c120a8dc0c6cacf18e3eae8847fe0c3f76f
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded script payload and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it likely exploits a known vulnerability to execute a dropped payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports its malicious nature.

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
f32b735a58bcf8185da5b7184329d892ab0eba905a451d7aec3b5d9281933e9b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11210 bytes