Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91964e58a20e8094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 162eaf7546bc4a67ddae0cd5308662cd SHA-1: 84e928c72491551fb6eca4def6403b0e362920dd SHA-256: 91964e58a20e8094c01f6909aa752ae3d1f60c658e6c4771b1a9f5da58049055
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing an embedded script payload and was classified as malicious by an ML model with high confidence. ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further supports its malicious nature. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests a common delivery mechanism for exploits targeting PDF viewers.

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
9f6558a03eca3330fcad59623400913b8a260b11b0b5a7501d7da9428d30bc40
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18952 bytes