Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3589843e94165eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 872052e0c219a3ab3769108e946f010b SHA-1: ea453b3073434f95d05b7cf3309b75d40042b0b2 SHA-256: c3589843e94165ebb4af329babfff44c7b48224bfdafd07605beb4484e660b39
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates a malicious PDF exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to drop and execute a secondary malicious component. The document body content is not sufficiently informative to determine a specific lure.

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
31362e75199f65557e2ee698ccefae0fcf99e60fb62a720c5cc9b65d9820711a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18741 bytes