Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e290583f6b1944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 0c77f4666dfd0bbefa44faf352513ee7 SHA-1: 293af7f71e1b76f69541c9b9a75ab32f1d041c28 SHA-256: 85e290583f6b1944e5e5e37bb2bbbd42ef628b1f691001bcb82d9cee12273ce2
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 with a very high probability of being malicious and was also detected by ClamAV 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 ML classifier's high confidence and the ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious intent.

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
2cb2a6d2f4d4d7ad9be3d7c030a7fda2c6832f0848e02bde3542d347c716bea9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18777 bytes