Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c90643a3c1a81a1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: c2e08a76bc2f2e6a8d1cc856a75bce09 SHA-1: a261021b391d1d7aff1a27156fea0320dd1684fb SHA-256: c90643a3c1a81a1fd9aa7b4ae2b7c9de4f431cbf20204bfefe0617c7fc68c3ac
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE' heuristics suggest the presence of an embedded malicious script or file, specifically 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin'. This points to an attack pattern where the PDF acts as a dropper for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
fccdbd31f2b8c7b960b67df7ab0a51a50718587fa22961143a320ed340e55ec2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11158 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).