Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc9275ced4eff288…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: c51fe072b7e2840d36e948366bfbb065 SHA-1: 46c6a08c5846ca356bacd7b29be5f9c2042ce4d0 SHA-256: dc9275ced4eff288b9523e90e873112ad31f2a1dc8cccb9a51f16202abec889e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and a machine learning classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The XFA form structure is also noted.

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
8d0f528c0b641f4466f82827ff941342a22e1c27047eacedf64189dd42b773d2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18770 bytes