Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb8292bdf779fc46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: aa0c042bfb7d888fe9896cb822cc10e6 SHA-1: 995498418b2aac921339f7354aaaa4c55c21cea5 SHA-256: bb8292bdf779fc46707848680cab92cd4876ffe28414dd8c4c97a234a7b00049
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was flagged as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV with a critical severity, indicating it is a known exploit. The PDF contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, suggesting it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA form elements also points to potential exploitability.

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
12840d985a849fe77ae394155dbbd2bb85bf4f39989c929b50728ea8552b918a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18893 bytes