Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a97eb12d71235cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: c5b18e8d9c37799bd94d614a3e57be35 SHA-1: ba49eb6ea9d210d41b512e684c92deab68e4233b SHA-256: a97eb12d71235cea6c5a826c6420b05597577eba64f3001ff45b319432cd25f2
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 detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded objects further supports its malicious nature.

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
874bcf0fc118300aa79557c764fbda1f3b7dd8a3ec7f35407f21e1d66dc8820d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11497 bytes