Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e87802d0771246e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: 9c625ff5cbed88682024e29507e5fd3b SHA-1: 5a44fdea35310b4e061315b31005393d6aa77ee6 SHA-256: e87802d0771246e5a41cf4b6c35f5ee463b1cd89952916e800ce16aa7802b09f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file indicates the document is intended to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier's output of 0.999996 strongly supports the malicious classification.

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
abbcb02891dc05ae9f3c2171afd3779aaea921c89fa225dd6fc11c09dbb18205
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18690 bytes