Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bdf9220ca098a62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 5d11f056e03d4e93ecd13ee79291bac4 SHA-1: 9e51b73e1f291f810262177f7d037ec27be57026 SHA-256: 8bdf9220ca098a620e7a022266e29963b104a6b3d5d29d8685a676795d432dbd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic indicate this PDF contains malicious content. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms are common techniques for delivering exploits. While no specific script content was readable, the overall structure suggests it's designed 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
e89870b7d3c91117993806ce5d5a2faa0b04027609f3a94aeeb63546b21fbde1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18714 bytes