Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85336363b0f5efe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 462296460bb5c052c7264ae1481cbd53 SHA-1: 2809423bcd8582edae5311e587f12169580a1252 SHA-256: 85336363b0f5efe3d47ffce9c9508bb3001e73a80e037640d552aa5d774979bd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic indicate that this PDF contains an embedded script designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files further supports this. The embedded URLs are related to XFA schemas and Adobe, but their reputation is unknown or benign, suggesting they are not the primary malicious indicators.

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
b38a61bba233f8e64bee50f08a243d96f0b79031dfcfa29a27d30103631b3a7d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11662 bytes