Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dc5371a01027914…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: e29111f027c9f545e15d925f0f2a8746 SHA-1: 0bf1423906ecdfd13e63a9776bb11927e2071b50 SHA-256: 8dc5371a01027914dcbd365d68e567d082e377777720262071bdd9acf281eb63
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements further supports its nature as a potentially exploitable 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
2875923ed9b93c37aa8f48e69812f981be0940d28b42a6e5c3a826f3f4cc11fd
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11194 bytes