Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b510c25d88e6e55a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 3d34b7a96070df194a9a9acac856177d SHA-1: 628ffaac04316b03f7c7bb33e177eae6b0accfe4 SHA-256: b510c25d88e6e55a42a4317388d2090dac6f0f96ddf3870863f1e0869220df06
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, strongly indicating it is designed to deliver malware. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further supports this. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the primary artifact of interest for further analysis.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
24bd74a9ae91399946e47967fd68faf925984e1ddb32b0a71da905fb54314d1f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11212 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).