Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b4c39bff297b2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.4 KB
MD5: 9ee61f349c20ab760e17c250eaf23116 SHA-1: e0841364388690e6f133f5667138a87092d3d6d9 SHA-256: e7b4c39bff297b2eb22821ec22177abdc224bc7f5cd11fa5a423bf09cda80f92
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to drop and execute further malware. The PDF structure and embedded content strongly suggest an exploit delivery mechanism.

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
e5b9b3d5af9b70cd4384f12051a41b5c4fabdbc811a399ac5bc79cda7d8aec36
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11956 bytes