Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcc7320f845bb7bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.2 KB
MD5: 1b45bd8abb1ec38b151dfd168024f08f SHA-1: 77325a55ed9852c7a0c5d73d7a8e7ecfdb869712 SHA-256: dcc7320f845bb7bbaaaf9fb5969526aad3a42c6214f574e07d2d8d59c5db9599
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely contains an exploit. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files further supports this assessment. While no specific script content was readable, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's a dropper or exploit delivery mechanism.

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
b28eed1add8e63e9ce96eb153d559fad61d9a452c8dffe4766e3cea0917e37c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 26020 bytes