Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 944e9658402fbf55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: afae82adb5b207e6b7339eddfe39554b SHA-1: 7d9a44d13dbf2c2c79a77d75279c1d6d3be928ab SHA-256: 944e9658402fbf550bcb8c0f48c1588c8577e9ac4e10047d251d565d9e0bc075
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 embedded exploit. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports its malicious nature. While no scripts were directly extracted, the embedded exploit payload suggests the PDF is intended to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
4dadb67e9ba8fb3ed5aaadab908476acd7aecf21b36343ac2b3df3fa0eb16f15
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11299 bytes