Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aecdad6ea2f9c80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 0ac355d8f16fb2abdc8ed4f6e2a2b6b2 SHA-1: 3b349525c7ba393676a661cd5aab32838ea88849 SHA-256: 9aecdad6ea2f9c80b5481e7ae205084701a7e412334d9166b311cf7c265874f7
126 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, specifically indicating it's an exploit that drops a payload. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. While the document body is not human-readable, the technical indicators strongly suggest a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

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
fc32bcbbc1cce147515e3849bd5cb4d88abd7068171fc795ba08870b68966127
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11558 bytes