Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecad71e2b749cf49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: da4f1e16307833015f1600a70155991b SHA-1: 34688ca1a2b012927998a3878ac6f80154b758ab SHA-256: ecad71e2b749cf49d347fbd42e7fd34d3d6ce94493e871175c4d5ba99a4011ca
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and embedded file further supports this. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a common vector for PDF exploits. The ML classifier's output of 0.999996 strongly suggests a malicious exploit.

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
c06894a6651de260a58a7ee0e5aa49e951b0d1b4c428decdec23b7cb267c8b8b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18816 bytes