Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d945c15fab153890…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.8 KB
MD5: fbd8968f238b2c0b402caad6fb7762ad SHA-1: 1c2db9fde42f85d45070eff93d467852a58927f8 SHA-256: d945c15fab1538906a203e1679f7d69c91a30608beafc817d39921d4a7beb450
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, and a machine learning classifier also flagged it with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, suggesting the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary malicious component. The XFA form structure further supports this.

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
7e538da1c4ed54f2d47925bffb2f019b3c03d81ffebee7a1a42fa2b9e63fdb8b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18473 bytes