Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 962eb3832d0f4442…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: cba30771e87da47b59d75df5c4d53a2f SHA-1: 07a3cbcb7e3d652e4a054d32e7a09839097ddbb9 SHA-256: 962eb3832d0f4442cbba29322bd1062df22d98c3cb5cce2a0bd547df8f5ba54e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download or execute a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF structure.

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
c04258e875c95596463b8dc2ee9d549183a0317acd3375e87d67cb5336b5e710
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11366 bytes