Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1b749b916c52209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: da6dcb1713a0fc78e11777436890a101 SHA-1: 021aa2132cb77016c627d38a67e2a0d2995f745a SHA-256: e1b749b916c522091fd3a69dbfd6e33d6bb319598749c948b92f506732f43cc2
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 with a high probability of being malicious and was also detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The document body contains obfuscated text, typical of malicious PDFs.

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
e57ac038cbe9b961c03975bb2ed28eae55120ff4387be9c9515d686357bacb04
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18905 bytes