Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2f3456e0480249e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 3c606e0bde935c9217f7d4e08f402a6c SHA-1: 2d3a5fc77ef9efd902d8046fce3fad799a54e7b4 SHA-256: e2f3456e0480249edc12ddbf7ad2f5990ab812ee540d2f58f9b42ed6cd27598a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability within PDF viewers to execute malicious code. The embedded file artifact further supports the delivery of a secondary payload.

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
56d8d4ddddd34591ab1f0d78dc9150878dda5bd6a5bd65ed0d0a2ae4b562de7c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11694 bytes