Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b925c3bf41499ff3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB
MD5: ca5ca9ecd4d5b5f8358495853b2e4e62 SHA-1: 26d2a32ea31aa7ec836f6343e6ac957d04abf046 SHA-256: b925c3bf41499ff3d39e6530c4f7ff5d50690395a1e30fb7aedfb3b787fa3d81
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and drop a secondary malicious artifact. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the primary indicator of the dropped 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
88cd77e453ac531ba9e66dba48cd799c00fe0acab537d28b8b0d56da6e04a231
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11804 bytes