Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4dcb3f167374700…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: edd6617c85ee28a9088c0b23317cc52e SHA-1: 27ca4f25649b61822b92f77bfb703dab061fdcea SHA-256: c4dcb3f167374700b7b9be3445018bb329f7729972bd8215a366cb4b587751af
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 embedded URLs are related to Adobe XFA, which is a common vector for PDF exploits.

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
f6de916283f86078e6a67575ef795c42fb84912c5449cfe505a8006038cc43a2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11334 bytes