Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 882923886c4ebf1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 06f053f5d664a12ab37377da4868a037 SHA-1: 3129e9823e251421c906e2f35fc972078044e4d8 SHA-256: 882923886c4ebf1ef9e310415b43c971f61b87167fbac28e552505332d424069
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score. The presence of PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_XFA indicates the use of embedded scripts within an XFA form, a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded file artifact further suggests the delivery of a secondary payload.

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
ada8f0f364d2282bddf2038bf890568cb2752de7ad32371ceae3c5b2e013e1d4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11360 bytes