Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd87111e681d66d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 36643ce6bb31b4623b1b23a0088cdb9f SHA-1: 3f708b3129d94a546bcbcc3fae5ce7bbc5559a92 SHA-256: dd87111e681d66d66c1227c6e4dc44823170a1c5b487fb354a59ddb02096de1c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains malicious content. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious in reputation, are part of the document's structure.

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
2517ce1833b4efad38515930962cf95cb0f1f9dc9648f16082feae01371a617f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18757 bytes