Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d341e8d016ef0f63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 3b05df09547b0dc0fa3dffba3430df1f SHA-1: fcbbb58fc0d1fb4fba85fb5e7a457f5fea967210 SHA-256: d341e8d016ef0f634f344b8225d7bc63efc9d97c3b42738ee8090ba9dced2f26
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. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. 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
7f1906fc68a18ebca075fc31b767cdcfcc5f4241c16b6a7f1d20edc0bb69913a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18840 bytes