Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdf9b5173feece12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: f31cff2078a25923e2f212f2fae63780 SHA-1: 4df28679e46e8c63a975de703c4f00fb71270921 SHA-256: cdf9b5173feece12feea2c00596b4188cabd9d3d4efa44b110964596a03fc406
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including embedded script payloads and ML classifiers, indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further confirms its malicious nature. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms suggests a delivery mechanism for a secondary exploit or payload, though the specific script content is too obfuscated to determine the exact execution flow.

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
60499e7899af71e58a5e2368d39dd73d8de1ab7e0593c3a8fca24dbbf1e19df6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18793 bytes