Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bec9e845a338453…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 22247aa41e03a691db6cacadf589c9bc SHA-1: 84f71ac321e90bad454336c1e088a29675796246 SHA-256: 8bec9e845a33845307d392fcc21792b63941979940c4985b5a3cac2005351a58
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while mostly unknown or benign, are part of the document's structure.

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
b1305ed38def1c4ab8fcea04cb7f996869777e49c08916bb0ff1292e3d1ac04a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11405 bytes