Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 868889e7ba1b8d25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: db3aaea3682603ac7f2c5ce6838622d3 SHA-1: b25d0d316fc17831ecfa55341c2c80d25f29de8f SHA-256: 868889e7ba1b8d254a6b2b80427a6f9fe3e37194aa12ba3502f4dc45b97ebdef
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent. The PDF structure also suggests it may be an XFA form, which has been historically 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
fb08f71559fd6a89042ff9fbe1c7f08481fde68c2203739db4a6995beeb36132
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11288 bytes