Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 905b630a869d1d0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: bd9842781c36b47441d0f29c06885e65 SHA-1: a4c1aff413dded3262a14e9d48397c5e667b4fb5 SHA-256: 905b630a869d1d0e07d9bd8f8b68d89456d9e4d74979ab38a6814ce038d3bc8b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score, indicating it contains an embedded exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript, likely intended to execute the exploit and download a second-stage payload.

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
1f4780facddebc3bc88cde43494ed51d17570d5f20abec031f2381c581208c63
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11572 bytes