Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2cff0bccbd691ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 9f0c6e4737449c026eb94ae4b69f5024 SHA-1: f7865dd9bd171559bd7176334ed55dc0f7bc1be1 SHA-256: c2cff0bccbd691ec87de341cfba44f9c253b3ca70ac5b535f9409d9f7cb23ed2
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 with a high probability of being malicious and was also detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The XFA form structure is often abused for exploit delivery.

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
81c8f390ba4b64c81cea282f81390773d944efaa15c19ce9f5fe9b7428bebbe2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19123 bytes