Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3bea10ca9fdd5cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 5fb6911b1d170b88f3a92361615d582a SHA-1: 7af1e81b515090037b5f127a4cfaf71130392d15 SHA-256: b3bea10ca9fdd5ccded5dd3b4b23e710e1a6388b0eb7f49ef8c5c358ac9e965a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is a dropper for further malicious content. The document body is not human-readable and contains no discernible lure.

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
475388214246c7207e8074e0c585be299f33aa4e5dcaa07fb26713c4bd03f9b0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes