Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb1068869886f50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 6a0d4c7e82d33f695bf8d5b60b0408ff SHA-1: 78756e8a8c5a6230135764fd8fabe29e7742e1cd SHA-256: 9eb1068869886f50c301d2528c736cc75d26cf4346dc39867a7eeb1a9ef63687
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1553.005 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

The PDF contains embedded content and a script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload. The XFA form structure suggests a potential exploit vector.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
487a028793bc131a4f3578d2c862b4883ae194b4db8b39d4ac1ecdf74562479a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11168 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).