Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 994dd804182fa388…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 4908882e9321f2bdd9cb7abb1c037916 SHA-1: ed5a05fd76392fb110c3e9fcf417acd89a281ed0 SHA-256: 994dd804182fa38890630dd6ac00c4f9f3c5443db9fc0c36644524d6853e9dec
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic indicate that this PDF contains and likely exploits an embedded script to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded file artifact further supports the delivery of a secondary stage. The exact nature of the exploit and payload cannot be determined due to the lack of script content.

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
83d657548e38d1869ac1322bd194fb32de042e626d8be22594f795e8e7a6c930
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11777 bytes