Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed7dbdb8b806035c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: ee32b3a45f553f9c5afdf896fa89617f SHA-1: f765a4c6399f94a5ef40e1d190ed2fa998aa2b63 SHA-256: ed7dbdb8b806035c341d36a84d9e2dd9830ec57c29d0a1056e8ad41f48aad7da
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detections indicating it is a dropped exploit. An embedded script payload was also identified, suggesting it is used to download and execute a secondary stage. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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
ebaf344baaa6ff155013615c210e611647f28e8afdfd7b54aa288dd4a35495e5
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14288 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely