Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e46d2ff6254ffa32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.2 KB
MD5: cad9c10dcf9edb0f75d149e9e43d8757 SHA-1: 7180c56954197783b0f365cc22cbce8ae5e7c0e6 SHA-256: e46d2ff6254ffa32428c41039228a5d447f27614b5a59d94928eab3c410702d2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and an ML classifier with a score of 0.999996. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests that this PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download or execute a secondary payload. The benign nature of the extracted URLs indicates they are likely decoys or unrelated to the malicious functionality.

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
aa66f8ad170737fa0fe306a1df5b86feb4c880cf5eb525392216e02cbb53cc35
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18867 bytes