Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c583875ac95990ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 5f5ac35c441349df852c7cd9e273c210 SHA-1: 004302b57699bd9cef5692a9b16e8e393966c509 SHA-256: c583875ac95990ffba337625541976d9a2cf9d5564c01234ab0fb191d2de7cb5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it contains an exploit. Heuristics confirm an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the document is designed to drop and execute a secondary malicious component. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files are common delivery mechanisms for PDF exploits.

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
a0a373951d2c2940a7df9c3f5eeedd4c2bbdd8ca8aed6150b3f9172b67c3c42f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11479 bytes