Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b59bc70d0ccbdde9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: e6942f36e1cf7dd56a2c8692dc47e46c SHA-1: 7ed5d609c02acf34e154bd14793674af74389dda SHA-256: b59bc70d0ccbdde9240126403a9eb8cf62bd565b1bd19d7fe10cd55ba6cfdedf
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and confirmed by ClamAV detections (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809). The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an XFA form suggests a potential vector for script execution.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
9dded0f2d4adf682cf37fd3de7563f20adcc399d6b0c55581ee348f795f84b76
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14272 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely