Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93fdbe8cd74eaad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 170aedd4b04b3a39a19965b43c5878f4 SHA-1: 4f66e72e102d5d827191056ce9fb36d2bd592108 SHA-256: 93fdbe8cd74eaad8c25c5f38ffa3b9c1a7b32dd45803d1bb105bca8776a2a89d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute further malicious content. The XFA form structure is also noted, which can sometimes be leveraged for exploits.

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
416bf14afa6f0df77fbdcb0a8c080e3b7cb8a08ffc6dbae98208deebd2f96e0f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11764 bytes