Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8551e98b8ef8ee8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: f06b7e68e33f14a3993b0cbbc07ced7b SHA-1: 73afb2462dd2ecdf1b8a468d6da49e52b52bb5fd SHA-256: e8551e98b8ef8ee80029a5ff97b76ea6be1ece31b09dca31801ae90a02ef97a6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity, but the overall structure points to a typical 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
2bcd79b7e321d4032c411fc2b6766cccf271d906034a17f175ab3e9667221e78
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11289 bytes