Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9534347c3d2e8265…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: f7eeeab914ad7ca6d0b3dd11249272fe SHA-1: 9bf8bdf781c0813d764c2dd5aef4eb341d89bea4 SHA-256: 9534347c3d2e8265eb9e745ab6d130cd566b212b9e88d7d68ff93940e2245568
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and was flagged by multiple detection engines, including ClamAV, as a malicious exploit. The presence of XFA form elements and an embedded script suggests an attempt to leverage PDF vulnerabilities for code execution. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
1ba03f16cf677bbb7ee0f038e62a78d8b7c91fda36818c915dbc2383270bc844
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14306 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely