Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3768d49cbd9c83b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: e3250fbf801315d7a46874128f8a331e SHA-1: 87b9af86baedb9ed353820d9e15c35f85ae97b3a SHA-256: c3768d49cbd9c83b9d67491ed209a027f00ace608283ebc2b05296d055929fd1
128 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'. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malicious content. The document body contains obfuscated text, typical of exploit-laden PDFs.

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
e956a77149d4a79899549a00d510f8cb4fea74eed6ae3cf9309370d8d8b5d16f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11680 bytes