Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baf4a6f599256acc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 53596ebd1e73ee61cca4e31d4fafb51a SHA-1: 7c7d246e31c766e0c6df31c23de6007cdfbb3b7a SHA-256: baf4a6f599256accabacd5db80a1ad70e77ae1a3762353c62ef6106186c25deb
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates malicious intent. The PDF contains embedded script payloads and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute further malicious content. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the exploitation vector.

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
580add2fd31ff0b23f85c30e3ad9a8e26dc436e151210e44b16da2c613085438
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11325 bytes