Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d40737190d3c6dbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: 08d7620440308646394c94af43fe8358 SHA-1: bb581e3d760f07bc2a02a887188ebf917377e8ef SHA-256: d40737190d3c6dbf830778198fe0a86ee5b14a5d82b055532e2d3a02f1185b04
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high ML classifier score strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains an embedded script payload, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary stage. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files are common characteristics of malicious PDFs.

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
3cc3b27660acbc3fb791e3230dfaadd0263a25d32d74363da60bc49f4d1fe2bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18891 bytes