Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89a52334c4c8863b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 72d74044df1c43e37514af2ce1cff876 SHA-1: 3400d7e47fe88f552e7f13933915f71db3f0bc89 SHA-256: 89a52334c4c8863b767222c379a893d894044b89a326be8cabf80afb3e2685f2
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads suggests an attempt to execute code, likely leveraging JavaScript. While the embedded URLs are benign, the overall structure and detection results point towards an exploit delivery mechanism, possibly as a spearphishing attachment.

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
a3da85d891d6caeb3b09ac990a39ccae1ea6a51de3b1d6874e8d16deb8346dcf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11513 bytes