Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd463bcdc41fab5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 28924c2039024a59a3ed8cd2fc26c8ee SHA-1: 752da08ef7b1ae40ca6c3b2e15e0555d8df7575b SHA-256: cd463bcdc41fab5d8c194bbaf7e2d6db41839e7a8e6c37cd2e611cfbf2e830e4
128 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 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 further indicates malicious intent. While the specific attack vector is not fully detailed, the nature of the findings suggests it is designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities and drop a secondary 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
3e0acfa18f17457ade470457d3df1272eadbfa5a6fd8e91335c086422bf64aee
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11530 bytes