Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb698b44503b646a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: b1aad8ec352528dcd205b4bc1f669cc1 SHA-1: eb35b327ced70d890d39681c9ae3e464cab8ff06 SHA-256: bb698b44503b646a7ea4faff7124b7336f6f69db9d9447d37d7ece7b4a89702b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The document body content is not human-readable and appears to be obfuscated or malformed.

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
835fb6085aae0f9a786a65f2a04153d7930746ab050eaf8c2ac59b63d8a95419
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19080 bytes