Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fb5125fa95b5f8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 379936cad0882feb83cda0e64d034729 SHA-1: c3c3b85df66ea98099e83ce0323da2a64e5254ad SHA-256: 9fb5125fa95b5f8c6d8d0325afb810d1c69d825c0c5dd770a9fe32b2b4d2dae5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute further malicious content. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is a primary indicator of the dropped payload.

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
dfaac63a8d2568f0b89bc9cbe97aef87af0e20674c0bdd1016f4c4d0393feba9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18762 bytes