Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b684db6d395bcbc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 6405701ef37972a2d8470dae415402e7 SHA-1: 3a854f5c520c17f9c8728d6a741907c8ae95b795 SHA-256: b684db6d395bcbc235732f3702daa792b85643a828e69ae949fdc7ac125fb2ba
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic and the 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' artifact. ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly suggests malicious intent, likely involving the execution of an embedded exploit. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the nature of the attack.

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
e00dad3eed5d15b00158284d62c987b377ef3b58cd8dd0f95841e5d2b483944e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11333 bytes