Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0b84d4bae0e1d99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.8 KB
MD5: 2d0ce66a08fe5e871ba724a0d4b6d9ed SHA-1: e4840dfd3992b7c5e787236ee572976a526c9f70 SHA-256: c0b84d4bae0e1d99bbfa7aac24ed46aa7c9f00b1f6bb71eb23b326489028e118
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious payload.

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
2bf0d2d1fcce03478f7af8f45e03e00f56f4bb7e55df6ed545d49fc43638ac7b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18532 bytes