Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8890d22279e0036f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 71209cbc7e68d128a3e3cd8bf1241d8e SHA-1: 403c508d739793c5286bcf840d4cbb05b4a141b7 SHA-256: 8890d22279e0036fcdb2a938ab70f35552f72841a6317d0b775a44e3022492e9
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 a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form suggests an attempt to leverage these features for exploitation. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the embedded file serving as the malicious 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
7348edf0ad1efdffcb793d1cd645a5ebeb7c8802fbc8c80cdff0bd9c147f0247
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11461 bytes