Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb3e137975cb77d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 9216ea23d3e0e1a374cdda02550c22cf SHA-1: c87052d489a5d95657a73c7a3027b1556effce5d SHA-256: bbb3e137975cb77dd0069c0751ad05493a00d632583af505f6ff3ac4609eca2f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit and likely drops a secondary payload. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic confirms the presence of an embedded script, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the likely payload.

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
513d9c37b231957db29267fa8f5067bf5719f27b6d35f2e67db90756008a469b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11301 bytes