Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ac413862d6f25a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.8 KB
MD5: bba798540165f8fc3e2400608f16e7cd SHA-1: e80826c7a37bce9169b57ca75d5c2a53321b8c59 SHA-256: 99ac413862d6f25a059387f7b9ac9a3339a8ea846dc47647c622ba64f14c88b7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests it's designed to deliver a secondary malicious component. The PDF structure also indicates the use of XFA forms, which have been historically exploited.

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
78c806a244d8ce4d654d07ce2413ef5d654795cc6763625962862a52df40bc11
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18498 bytes