Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be6695b50e69d7e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 110aed5b59f60c0de19bec5e0c9d6c1a SHA-1: abaa8ac10dc8f0580d452b2f5cf59cddd236f233 SHA-256: be6695b50e69d7e54d5f12411bc3c6f4b5b9e0dd2952df8a7b043a998033398a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files suggests a complex attack vector.

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
1bb859dd6817195c941825c672a35e7a5e64bf0860086acbfa404e67174d38de
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19128 bytes