Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bde0d48dbf62dad9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 1bd91930b14948e815551fa8f1c1e438 SHA-1: e2290c8aeafae3a8dbebf27856934c4a0eac86e7 SHA-256: bde0d48dbf62dad92f5856f00487833a00b9cdd1159412581af07402014bd1ce
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests it is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a second-stage payload. The document body content appears to be obfuscated script-like data rather than user-readable text.

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
dd0f27cba70bcec59ef9493a8470bfb08a23af0f0c7e4a19d4b5694e0b875e6a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11674 bytes