Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8adefb1db971f93e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 1070de0578332d52d5d57e044562d26a SHA-1: a4ddf3c93b54ab07eb7fbcb37bbe717bfa76cad8 SHA-256: 8adefb1db971f93eac238342e714042d7e26f1fe1f12b3afa3ca418b651c336f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with a high probability of being malicious and was also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are known to be exploited in PDF attacks.

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
457353c0583e206debfef59a7bfaedf0ce5e7bc18901a56952d5ac6d8b84ef2d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11224 bytes