Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2557161d013e94c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 152751984b7aedb894c82cc576212d03 SHA-1: dc0ccc572467be2eb842abe0d97a4afea565f4b6 SHA-256: b2557161d013e94c8b403c44f846c3d48fc1e6c0b091edddfdf75993752bd359
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements also suggests a potential attack vector.

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
49a0a6a29a205d2783b6fd9d04438d8fcb9b52ac5f5eeb90e5dba6e36b0de6bf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11571 bytes