Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa1f52670ec62f94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

25.9 KB
MD5: cea6c0a57bf5c4a7eba510ebf8c70b08 SHA-1: 68bd22542b5c2ee0a3ff2e1b525a0a354da4e0d7 SHA-256: aa1f52670ec62f947932dbb048521f7a371fdadd442d3e1c5a2ae01a6ce0a664
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The PDF file 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. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are known to be exploited in PDF documents.

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
8f1d5260e9d9a8c2889ba6d4c230f380d03c158e553d2009e9a0b606255c2276
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 25717 bytes