Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a809a63a4f7d81d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 0e92767806a4c7d8302b148ce60bfb6f SHA-1: 19c65bcad7e81e2306ea318fb80ba624e2bc8758 SHA-256: a809a63a4f7d81d8cd937cec8097dc6361dfbac5f83029566e49ccc8ab78d0c6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score. The PDF structure indicates embedded script payloads and XFA forms, commonly used for exploit delivery. The embedded file artifact further supports the payload delivery mechanism. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

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
fa0da982090ade0801f3b314ebbb8541b73050b498a9fd1353ac992bef93c8a2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19105 bytes