Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8cf56ff4a5feb58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: aa01eb0f3efc8dcd79585f66a4749675 SHA-1: 93528aed70c6b6305ef991359a6865bf89558f09 SHA-256: b8cf56ff4a5feb58e5e3ac69a6c944ffd3153784b80cd419745a8b08fb050cbb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities and drop further malware. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF structure.

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
36b0cb1bff0788fc1331d6512087b4e2dc80ff7ef6a8634ae22e8a80f2273740
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11378 bytes