Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd0b71804d1cf455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 0e02a312e684a8c93446de0358e7b3a1 SHA-1: cbfb92caf7ea34455f4bfeff7057bb31e13ae99f SHA-256: bd0b71804d1cf455b2ac6e8713117867574a0f6c25a6aefdab337e82a59e37eb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', indicating it contains an exploit and is designed to drop a payload. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this. While the document body is obfuscated and unreadable, the embedded artifacts and heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious file.

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
ef3e278137179de6a02e5913ae91a9af8fb6a7eaf25306d2a896a5b31b431967
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11504 bytes