Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7700f9e108d1789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB
MD5: 083aea9d6360040f4678e76bf3403a94 SHA-1: 7afde21bdb90f7a32f6c0cf81acee50ec18bab5a SHA-256: e7700f9e108d1789cab231a8b71e50ce2f712a59ac257f4962ecd7aa1d180772
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malware. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files are common characteristics of malicious PDFs.

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
43dfbd376794e3c6123557a442b5fdf8fb29ee4977663ccbe2b5722205cd0957
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 19147 bytes