Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a03e3eda730b7acf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: b384da6f09fd275811177b7bef931d7b SHA-1: 710b059ba0a21397289ccf27120228f6cc83729c SHA-256: a03e3eda730b7acf6f4777b649c7cec2a1bfd2734bb99cb892663602d941b5ea
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The PDF XFA form structure is also noted, which has been a vector for exploits.

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
7d83e8885d1d8df38f3550fea371598463ae8fbada948bfca932d6cb7eeb3cb5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11234 bytes