Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94b0646565fd5a4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.2 KB
MD5: bae7039136b8beb77d2d2b5154f706e0 SHA-1: 3a912820128795e39773f970dff6cfc9e70d7e6c SHA-256: 94b0646565fd5a4eb0c9254654731e6a30c56661e00df8239616d159d56ba8e7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including an ML classifier and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload. The XFA form structure also indicates a potential attack vector.

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
3058c26473be503cbd5caed7afacbb75d6bfb3b8c50720d4b47c68e95e6882fe
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26082 bytes