Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87f4f4395c40ae36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 9f9d6448e473c363f38784f0db2408db SHA-1: a276f470dfd93ce835c5e763f5614c8523ce558c SHA-256: 87f4f4395c40ae36ef6e328467711b54f2e22596b146a15158dc880195bf9b74
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files indicates an attempt to execute malicious code or drop further stages. While no specific script content was readable, the overall structure points to an exploit targeting PDF vulnerabilities for client execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
da03d4efc6710c9f9c5b916349bbb3e6eb1662abc3e6adf367f6f6e624483da8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11681 bytes