Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4993a7c9456424f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: d256afcb4fbd323aa9e8f60eff16fe4d SHA-1: 5c296080bdbf4e7c1a2dc877a250531c98d9425a SHA-256: e4993a7c9456424f775fda36a4525c178960178049a692b8079451afc4052205
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and was flagged by multiple detection engines, including ClamAV, as a malicious exploit. The presence of an embedded script suggests it is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is listed as a potential indicator.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
27db1d2b65f310326a243628d2d3490610888c9c41cfa3ca58c24cab8945dd05
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14205 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely