Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee4dde601d82b98d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB
MD5: ba380db4fc9b7ad65c449824d94f512c SHA-1: a372a9767cd193b2457e84a8c5afa5a921185033 SHA-256: ee4dde601d82b98d67daa670ce63892a6b20fc80cea569dabc7210fc272a05e9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: 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 an embedded file strongly suggests it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs are benign or unknown, providing no direct IOCs for the payload itself.

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
a282869b750870148ac7246da49421766f33ff42c29443836462ed69e8928562
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11165 bytes