Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d61ddb8f596dffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.7 KB
MD5: f1b9ace4fdf402cce3b14b504d5b7dac SHA-1: d0d29d4b59566d22008d4b98a87d277c38d7746f SHA-256: 9d61ddb8f596dffce024eb1962dddeded9d7866a072c348482a33f29318e4470
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including embedded script payloads and a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. While no specific script content was directly readable, the presence of embedded files and scripts strongly suggests an exploit attempt to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, though mostly benign or unknown, are part of the document's 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
14d4e7cb9e1e2a1cb889cf2b9b217aa8a24da348de4b5cc419e0c984bc934eeb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19380 bytes