Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b27cb269d1d67440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 3416fee41a06c00bc4dd843acdc7aa1c SHA-1: 503051f1097efd1b28506a2ce7e3954d70703518 SHA-256: b27cb269d1d674407580ff2f49218b13deaee5d897df34ccfd5f9b8a815f5ab3
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 multiple high-confidence heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and an ML classifier scoring 0.999995. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent, likely to exploit PDF vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The specific exploit or payload is not detailed in the provided evidence.

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
8681751234cc6eb95309befbc55394a4cd2beeb16c45e2a1e1becb58225fa448
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11648 bytes