Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94dc88218e6a22a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.3 KB
MD5: 16bef72870a629d4f8744ecc6a1ca6c3 SHA-1: 890a09e175a85894e17bcb7961f1b1cb3817974b SHA-256: e94dc88218e6a22aa24cd8278d7f620871652d02e95a08b50e4f8fbc1c27a4f3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further supports this. The embedded URLs are benign or unknown, and the document body is not human-readable, suggesting the malicious functionality is entirely within the embedded components.

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
fc9b0d87227218ace82a2705585453afc061600b0c492e3ca4b33ace83cab81a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18981 bytes