Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6142ae8bdf9f49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 98f37f26509508e9687bbc30e703e820 SHA-1: a2e0c28a74cd916ff76d394139588dc243a4ad39 SHA-256: a6142ae8bdf9f49aa9400aaf732e20d6f5c428bf50113fe19800bbdb4d88f4e9
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 a high probability of being malicious and was 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 deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The embedded URLs are likely part of the exploit chain or infrastructure.

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
74ad4ea67442b64cec5859014c4a9de36309f70df1de6c62fe829c2232e19099
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11335 bytes