Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba78756797c3dc07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 26ab09687159cadc6bb1950d96517037 SHA-1: 7255e15cd770e4f9408bb4e944b28af56f733df3 SHA-256: ba78756797c3dc07f10394dc1cd154587219dacc5d94de6bf35b5f55d0872b1c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The PDF contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements also suggests a potential attack vector.

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
d27e4e2f1072e2976cca3dda83478ffaccb86e4ac0ec65266cbcee575ad4958a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11236 bytes