Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edabf923bb5b8b37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 3bdafd42ef968f1820dc6173e336354f SHA-1: 712db6cf80f946f4ad759a4b36d8f5b4b338e06d SHA-256: edabf923bb5b8b37fcc4b32d2db97d49b59ff06d7ac7b1bd63446e3df54fa28a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded content and a script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly suggests it's a known exploit dropper. The embedded file and script are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
317a7ff8a19dd9f64c7f175b1237008d6caf91764814a90aa3a238c099c6876a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11335 bytes