Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5c76e6c6ac3769a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: ad4423f4079f33f3f76d593282d64c49 SHA-1: 17933d1408f61d05a7346e057a02ffddf57b0e7b SHA-256: e5c76e6c6ac3769aec20e28f4a2a0099843c88dd6431f6ddd9c58ab11cf56d63
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are related to PDF and XFA form structures, which are often leveraged in PDF exploits.

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
a287c2cb5d741880202997ad28ce473561b2d1ae1d2035e6c1c85a7365f93684
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11158 bytes