Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e107fe72d88aad40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: d5941e2354c8408ea96f914f0813650a SHA-1: 29ba9ed04b632b2ad0eb5e196534bddeda6dd162 SHA-256: e107fe72d88aad40da9d17bc4fc472217893a2c7e1b52049804032fea03519e8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with specific detections for embedded script payloads and exploits. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms further indicates a malicious structure. While no document body text was available for analysis, the embedded nature and exploit detections suggest the primary goal is to deliver a secondary payload.

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
fa0aeb566aeb09564fd52e4c409b13052957f50fba7c5e73529152a00ff2dc12
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11335 bytes