Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fca754c13f6b9c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.3 KB
MD5: b49d4f06c6ef8158d967caa65aa24940 SHA-1: 28d9130f6618045d83a8540915e17747a1756678 SHA-256: 8fca754c13f6b9c3b6e1d13360e59c48aef20a649db6aefbd799309fdcce4aef
126 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 for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests that this PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF 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
8c41553ab453ef2f47d3aaa0e697a87c9fbb22ab1652803a90c530f52d7771cf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 14947 bytes