Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92b0f3e3c0276d1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 5708c467549ad47694c98446285e9a63 SHA-1: 1c32e607203311adf23439f71cd47ab81c1a69b2 SHA-256: 92b0f3e3c0276d1b09d1f63ac0bdd02a28612c9a81d4bd8ce67a0dd54d1b54fc
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded script payloads and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The presence of an embedded file further supports the malicious intent. The exact nature of the exploit and payload is not detailed in the provided evidence, but the overall pattern suggests a malicious PDF dropper.

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
0dc50bcb16c3f5c96a00817e4dd021257c8e6b02a6b65c3633ff8eabf41c9259
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11202 bytes