Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc96b52bae902564…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.5 KB
MD5: e1a7318635ab1e1c10a2909ef781e704 SHA-1: 9e203ba28e9ef7a4c0b92bd5e7780d768099a358 SHA-256: cc96b52bae90256483dd07102c94fec9dd85fb676f384cb09498cab4e104373f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests that this PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and drop a secondary malicious payload. The document body content is not indicative of a specific lure.

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
e791d92dababc6e5d8ccd20cae3b6c52eb0f21384cbde9cbb63ef5a60d945d75
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26327 bytes