Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28bd112735d0d08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: d3d38bff6972a5a8a3ff4ec190b6f20f SHA-1: 61e9366f32a1c0970344256372611df67a26fec4 SHA-256: a28bd112735d0d08e3fc4a4fe537a44ef330e5325a89c14ab43a6d5688cb16d3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 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 is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF 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
b1003b813ae7cecf39ebb582793f1ddb7fcd5bdd3ef1c1e404f89759f62c84d3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18734 bytes