Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93b2e06c4f96d1d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: c0663ff353b796fc0e1f04265661e7fa SHA-1: 08a6fb0a1cf15cb9dbde46db2a4226831cf8cf61 SHA-256: 93b2e06c4f96d1d3370146b862213feba5c179ecd0753da296e4291107b748e1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score, 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, which are sometimes used in PDF exploits. The exact exploit mechanism and payload are not detailed in the provided evidence, but the overall pattern suggests a typical 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
02948418a1970bbc4508daa6b92cfc9a5e0216a860f85801e090d511a95490ab
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11519 bytes