Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9329eb3d1b601aff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 034a524076d8c074f54844b7e88335f3 SHA-1: 1db29de42a1b672d1740b9557029074cbcccdd46 SHA-256: 9329eb3d1b601affc0d4f0ca5b150b6d1817ee6899b7396b57c8d31c186c9b20
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a common vector for PDF exploits. The exact nature of the exploit and payload delivery is not fully discernible from the provided script excerpt, but the overall pattern points to a malicious PDF dropper.

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
98e6659a045f3f1658a15c8ebbec5a6c027628dfb427956d4878d22035c87f02
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11077 bytes