Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9e6374e7b6edd3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: c19dc82f9add7b5dc020d05e559e0310 SHA-1: 639546145c1b15f30d61902d0aa66c50c4c378f8 SHA-256: a9e6374e7b6edd3d247a794cfd095bca0a7dafa85f5aea639b203d00e4bf0ce5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML score, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a known vector for PDF exploits.

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
7e91bb9824d61477ae39495f3856429a1698c442f72eabce8293de39c3925a12
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11502 bytes