Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ce6683b00c4c127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: f0ba9d64ba2cb09468cafdb1719ff996 SHA-1: 88ed693bdae338d1e14af07cc7ec63e6f4f9bc75 SHA-256: 8ce6683b00c4c127ec444890a643b9e41c4875b4d16e7faf0f9667bb4ed313eb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with a critical detection score. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded file and XFA form further support its malicious nature. The specific exploit and payload are not detailed in the provided evidence, but the overall pattern points to a dropper or exploit document.

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
ff2e8dddb421027e90b50902727f739815261a95cfc63dbe9084a2b7452e7c3f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11733 bytes