Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9c8beda4ba633ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: a234aa6195659632981ddbca3ac5d36c SHA-1: 41ae691877e506507db43f891a756b00a063fd09 SHA-256: a9c8beda4ba633ed385f1ccc5dad17860f97205228ed04de27489daa5b17b614
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including an ML classifier and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs, while some are benign, are common in exploit-laden PDFs.

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
b32ad8dd0bfbd5595c443dae12b13e53c1e4a724112b7e58b8a2945db07e3c56
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11227 bytes