Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ced630fed8fecec9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: 3da4f422244109685d6294ea74a31991 SHA-1: c22e073bcb7b4c0be1648cc5af956d4ff1fbb4d8 SHA-256: ced630fed8fecec9e91051d0d76ffc1083b2f661da6bb63e092fdd4f245f47e9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. While specific delivery URLs were benign, the core functionality points to a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

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
9ceda77758c2119bdcc4f97bd6cc3b60213135c907ad44aef0924225a4875d64
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11158 bytes