PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8c773b6df67d77a5

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB

MD5: 85ac8db341d29bd5617ebdae72df39c5 SHA-1: e68d7f3e6c1a6e5212857ce89c25e0695281bc43 SHA-256: 8c773b6df67d77a52362cacc4fe32be91c0e21575ccbf64426a43d7c5d104360

96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection and the presence of an embedded script payload strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF structure also contains embedded files and XFA forms, which are sometimes used to hide malicious content. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the document's structure.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `cb548fd642d8799fddf895be7b376b2259bbe4a6c0ac4acbf7f5548b9fc67012`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	11679 bytes

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