Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b0664b9d1f02ccf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 9282885119cfaf18e5f58c701caf3a03 SHA-1: afb09ef37543d675361adb83d850c1ad65f17946 SHA-256: 8b0664b9d1f02ccffec2cdb41a1ec0f3ea8dc86f175919c087018a95ca2105c7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The file likely attempts to exploit a vulnerability to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
d1873dafc61396aecef7c28bcb615f670529f5c65ef566c4cced1256ade83d6a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18903 bytes