Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d71360446ee57696…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: c6c176633be3c5ec9e1c92589e35a7dc SHA-1: 61ab6d52b2856ace3cc3bcdbaa88bd91e98543f2 SHA-256: d71360446ee576969b5743318d3a8b476b20c2948caac43f62fbffc683f6a026
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute further malware. The XFA form structure is also noted, which can be a vector for exploits.

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
5c9f54d044a31fa8b8187f9fafa1e1a7d70e0306d17adde66176b7a0df47c2d6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19050 bytes