Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9049411affa86c4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 5200c048acbb584866c806f4c2334dc6 SHA-1: ceb804b2841155ec19c26a1c1f458df144560de0 SHA-256: 9049411affa86c4f0bee9f76490291f0d00dfc2836eb9d4e5c4aae0f54c868b2
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF

The PDF file contains embedded content and XFA forms, which are common vectors for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates a malicious exploit. The embedded script payload further supports the conclusion that this PDF is designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload to the user's system.

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
915fd455dac92d89ccf79499b62878ff49b7676b16816457bbd17107d2de7a38
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18656 bytes