Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7a538cb2c6a5d05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.4 KB
MD5: 4954c05e2a2bf246f7191dcd0514a7df SHA-1: 47c2e5ace3df1cddbbdeacda84f9afa793772b88 SHA-256: e7a538cb2c6a5d05518ed1a26036dc87ffb52665d0a6356e32667e2149a8bec5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection and the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic indicate that this PDF contains malicious content. The embedded file and script suggest an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are likely part of the exploit chain or infrastructure.

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
8b84a363688287e5fa51a0b655edf158f848cc58486b9f72c1dc254b55faad8a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 10942 bytes