Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cafe2ba324b41f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: e0a54c9b84ae01616f8a63e742039a2c SHA-1: 76839d1cafc2c9bbd1e1473aa0d63781c751a4ea SHA-256: cafe2ba324b41f02e9e73cc25981a0c3aad451b4680d9d9684323076a3a9f9ba
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of exploit activity. 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 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
bc45dbbf44608ec3d0c3921a26df9c32f160071643c008d8e03699bcd1d7114c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19133 bytes

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