Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb6c8466ed952034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: e46fe8e7d30e022258bee00697cf8ee0 SHA-1: d4a70f598fef0f053fbae2c742335350b8e17685 SHA-256: eb6c8466ed952034394768036f80489398e7dfbe2a6bb6d90d3a6fb347083376
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload within an XFA form, as indicated by multiple high-severity heuristics including ML classification and ClamAV detections. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the malicious nature of the document.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
9f7ac3c5cae1367286928eeea54e8f64a02812d98fffdb6284b6ec734f702419
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14315 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely