Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb1cdd6090ee2ef2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: ae7db19be5cd335767e05ca807d2087d SHA-1: a84fabfbc1413aa5a7827f9bfc75c74cb712ddee SHA-256: cb1cdd6090ee2ef29adc685a8c82ab5465b6dcd886b5d9500cfba64120be42ae
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malware. The embedded URLs are benign or unknown, providing no direct IOCs for the payload itself.

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
7e7b6ac12ae8523bb1bb46f69b69cad9f391d9a786730c6669037558ef59df37
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19078 bytes