Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b244839dce36fe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: bfc3d450e3a39e6cf291167d4de72368 SHA-1: d96494595ce230296f6ac6e5be0c51d74c367b47 SHA-256: 9b244839dce36fe1df5eaf49a632b626928e1e6bcaa8c7cfe22ccf87ee173280
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', and an ML classifier with a very high confidence score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file indicates the document is intended to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The XFA form structure is also noted.

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
520cc8b114d195d0c72554d37b50f997ca411ae85ed23af63ab8f55e14f6cc6e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11369 bytes