Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e714bbc9b22585ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.2 KB
MD5: 389d2788758c0a8b902959e00be18a0f SHA-1: ed6463ad90d318c2464fc262465cd81927644755 SHA-256: e714bbc9b22585ac0f85b9d5f689fe582c81079c66abf96de765cf013373efac
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this assessment. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with the PDF structure.

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
c43e2e07be73c4a5d4777014c93538065dd6ad76f23c279a738539d3b48eee07
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 14777 bytes