Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5ee05f3a558bb93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 96ccebda976d8becaa6e2e5e3ff585c8 SHA-1: d43f5638b84d4d1b9a0701743a89f4e364ae24f9 SHA-256: b5ee05f3a558bb93fc02fc1cb080ef1312c3b97a80791a6fa665b2587699666b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The PDF structure and embedded content suggest it is designed to deliver a secondary payload.

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
f917993b9321f044c00ede3124d7aa4fab73090e0cd794432d5e61d7f80d45b2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18745 bytes