Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f60ccccda0b7f72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: e716113408c1a530eeb01e453499a956 SHA-1: 397a3ddcbc6dee9f953f3ded57245b6fedded700 SHA-256: 9f60ccccda0b7f725eaf11e6f8d1af9d6ff88699da42f2fcac9600737c9e0855
128 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 (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is a dropper or exploit container. The XFA form structure is also noted, which can be a vector for exploits. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity but 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
45f988f08b92737f202aba2c0fc9c573faa6d3ca0ccffe955bc66660f38d33c4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19128 bytes