Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adbafb3aaa107114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: a43bcde4c1927bafc46e5c77139e532f SHA-1: 0bec8ef9a7e4c3900c96e079203b115e47ba649b SHA-256: adbafb3aaa107114fb7d6d8c5443f96c7e41eeed2c0a071e34ea89ef03f39b59
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 ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files are common characteristics of malicious 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
d328983b674697266a5284fad492b0725a21733c303a235dcef4b00a5389fe96
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18909 bytes