Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edbc66fbfa3f5393…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 5e0433cb79463ab5fa0cbc4930c6258f SHA-1: b74c7a1fadef5ea81a3bd87c42b5c171aebd073b SHA-256: edbc66fbfa3f539386673ebe0c61c447e6fc7b02ecc1646bde789daa455cb111
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers critical heuristics related to PDF exploits and extracted artifact detections. The presence of XFA form elements and an embedded script suggests an attempt to leverage PDF vulnerabilities for malicious purposes. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a command and control channel.

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
6f65aa4cc42675d353e8a20d865ae6b2c33d2ecb6e839e78464cb99933b28e39
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14249 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely