Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22bacd06893deeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.2 KB
MD5: 189cf5ab60804e519602172a4a5f050b SHA-1: b7a50228bf049c351990ab35bcf59dcfdf13a420 SHA-256: a22bacd06893deebb0845c3a11083250b54896c83ea9114a954053d32df90268
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, and a machine learning classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and drop a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity.

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
793d76994ac3ee071380569fe1431979986aa5457df449ab52cf1f7f3f0b4226
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26118 bytes