Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1e2b75ea1ad77ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 3c10e3414a316be8ca265f23eac180aa SHA-1: afca8f6e0ddda3309c190581ad442c8b163bf6b8 SHA-256: d1e2b75ea1ad77ee9c820e4275a33ce042ae7d34d9e75228d5de3f83c562ee65
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates a known PDF exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to drop and execute a secondary malicious component. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing lures.

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
3a4093294a2ad54844a42e0cad217a4d5d17e961ce4a014bb08bdcce46d469b1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11469 bytes