Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0da1b0fd473865e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: d1b49b4870c1a9aa14d30702319d3fd4 SHA-1: 5f8ddf2f59429dbdf34be61fe10469507749bd15 SHA-256: a0da1b0fd473865ed2bad21afca9202b883b735c20c1c7b51548b5386196b709
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious Attachment

The file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV with the signature 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop or execute additional malware. The PDF structure also includes XFA form elements, which have been historically associated with 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
8512ca7c913d7310228666b26547e4c039f932736e53557eeb839e8381f58a40
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11399 bytes