Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca01cde5d4723939…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 04816ee9564b787921cebdd81fdb18f8 SHA-1: e0dbe00149a762f2025f7e7c942f556ee1f4ff05 SHA-256: ca01cde5d4723939c49334e706516ce3cfe5b4963af9015ba6c1bfa54c16d552
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs further supports its malicious nature.

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
1559def948703ae6d2b253a7e3e7168e04db11d708abe3580cc958335575decc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18880 bytes