Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 961368c6259d8009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: e390055337e1ae1dfbf9a545f72bd630 SHA-1: a19595a008e7014c85435f0fcda49f7137079115 SHA-256: 961368c6259d80092b5c864095898ab30be8518af871e0d66b2af2a7d04cb342
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with specific heuristics indicating an embedded script payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests a common delivery mechanism for exploits. While no specific script content was detailed, the overall indicators point to a PDF-based exploit attempting to drop a secondary 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
021025b1368e1d634c439303cf60a19b60a91ebe1ea59e6d590ca420ea119c0f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11342 bytes