Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4bf009d8470ae82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.5 KB
MD5: ba44a9f4533d401ff07ba64189718b22 SHA-1: 8f8aeb17d9c392b99b7214d2e96e1e20b9b08b7a SHA-256: a4bf009d8470ae82a2031fe33ba1825f442ab124863e6507039b19737b3c63e1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high ML classifier score strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic suggests the presence of an embedded script, likely used to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded file artifact further supports this, indicating a dropped payload. The ML classifier's output of 0.999996 provides high confidence in the malicious classification.

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
41f8ee0a82ac0f057e7434977291a08e96dcca71832c2166071dfb0111c12f40
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19213 bytes