Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6a2282b2b416ac2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 2cea66d339554c7d9d966db5e6d479f7 SHA-1: dc174e48ca827d48ed928b826346a96b17d8909a SHA-256: c6a2282b2b416ac238fc5e823b2aaebb5b3a424c7fe4940a89605fe5c5a02896
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this assessment. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is likely the delivered payload.

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
51ad501df69c70e6293d884090dbc1721974761aaf017a957370890e3e7f1440
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18744 bytes