Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6129dbbe06ba24d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.4 KB
MD5: f6cfa3a78ddf068f240ac2c06540279c SHA-1: 3f1e631e49ea30ba55cac869dceee25571c1392f SHA-256: a6129dbbe06ba24d8dcc7ed5f8d620bbaff22d0b0e0e00c915ddc9e8d1777f45
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detections indicating it is a malicious exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload within an XFA form suggests it is designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
d1af9f660b32bbe82bcfa81ba31138781f9db722f2a29e3d2f51a49bb13d95d6
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18065 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely