Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e95a18bd3f40fcd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 7bdf19106b576c6335ed22aadf035405 SHA-1: 98217af95be98e35a2d95eacfad37b644754a8a2 SHA-256: e95a18bd3f40fcd5bd6d3d9aebf17a5f90873aabfa2e876744738b28bfd15165
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded content and a script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload. The document body and URLs do not provide further actionable intelligence.

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
f5cd718e32560e58ba3cce3b693316e30417fcb623c57e89e98a7238afac7559
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11585 bytes