Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c511d6848c9af02c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 6513349fa353dfec432f88c000971d1a SHA-1: 95777a5117a56168a699f0dcf6068d330c5b01f2 SHA-256: c511d6848c9af02cc35ac40d5fa3a200ee4550ee7a286479458e97d2355971d7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic indicate that this PDF contains and likely executes an embedded script. The presence of an embedded file further supports the payload delivery mechanism. The document body content is not indicative of 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
58b22529ab60c9d13d72d6f3e3cd5626f13d808bb894721ebc00d1ebe9eb1da9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11419 bytes