Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da34c1ea05826132…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.6 KB
MD5: 5b96004c2b826c934edf4ff081562a41 SHA-1: 0888afae6670bfa0b7b0935db75c1796dda3dc04 SHA-256: da34c1ea0582613262b0631e2cfa1f383c5d5b8def48b38032900ca945c7e8e0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file and XFA form suggest an exploit delivery mechanism. The confidence is high due to the critical ClamAV detection and embedded script.

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
2f54349f5e518bb7839f257630b173c84cf02fa29cc3db60c57546cce3326f20
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19285 bytes