Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b20abdad8dfb1498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: a7ce71b63df0667ecfe08987e54f3a6c SHA-1: 2b39dc2ab2877a05f2123397ab3688ddc3d1b521 SHA-256: b20abdad8dfb1498b126c4098810d2ec54894737f3739692e3e812a675c46376
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 malicious payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs, though 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
5669bd96b5711ce6d8be18e1bc4811927aa138e4b709dd079b522eecd601f75c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11411 bytes