Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9f3664eadbd1ffd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 687619edfd95d4ac11969501823c4b6b SHA-1: 4e7818f2ed5e3ad8bbc44e2722e385b0c83cdff6 SHA-256: d9f3664eadbd1ffd8d6911fe8f3896585b0b097df9fc53d1b83189d735bb9ce6
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms further supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity but are part of the PDF structure.

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
bdbc41b498e7e90e6fc4a9970bcc08ac5296a1c97622c2d7085284be67b7e7df
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11426 bytes