Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1a976ed5013fccf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: a24c02cd6caca64b17a5d2a7367e7bbe SHA-1: d313bd8b0f68d07cc63d49a0942c4f911d4a4f62 SHA-256: d1a976ed5013fccf27ab136dc05a0abfc69cbf0d144f8256e00630b105b3eab8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the PDF is a dropper. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a known vector for PDF exploits. No scripts were extracted for further analysis, but the overall structure points to a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

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
1328cb5631508a52a5cbedf3a45a7c5142ab6dc22e492b2ee796d923c6688e7e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11576 bytes