Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca093b67185b47b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 080e9fe93d08fb453926886fdd64ffc3 SHA-1: 7a3f517fa9287a3bc650a094ce66ae71f88b9164 SHA-256: ca093b67185b47b3011252cff0864d7c0420784135f13de3c0966d1ff3bb4c0a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV with a critical severity, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and embedded file further supports this. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the document's structure. The primary attack vector appears to be exploiting a vulnerability within the PDF reader to execute a dropped 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
f49c7d10808b9a8f6d1e6c076c6cc888d43aee885c471afaf626319cd057f643
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19111 bytes