Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b8e7abda8518831…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 6fce71ccd4c1dd30dde1f9ae82296871 SHA-1: 97ad034ec1dba38b390fdb76af34b76a846a8438 SHA-256: 8b8e7abda8518831b75ca54d6ba3c9108c87a4fd84fc60e5acade804af6b0ce8
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggered critical heuristics for PDF exploits and dropped artifacts. ClamAV detections indicate it is a known exploit targeting PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or lure.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
34cdec444402ed2d315c2896b2f3c79e55e1c358b30aba3d2eb708462cc9f87b
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14321 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely