Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48f0d63c1f2a5cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: cb96f262c4eedc74d161ce16a19a52db SHA-1: e48e529c765ec0f92fdb84d2fe23a5175643d99e SHA-256: e48f0d63c1f2a5cbd621d75a232b5802cfb9dd435d0be629809e27baa0064019
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious PDF exploit. An embedded file artifact was also extracted, suggesting the PDF is used as a dropper for a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are benign or unknown and do not contribute to the maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
0cb03e44cd07e9a6b5317b287b5c5d805d8081816ef7a15cbe06e24683fb1228
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11204 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).