Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f11cdff56a4a508a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 5211a7b04b9cd7ebe48267ad5675b329 SHA-1: fc340267f82cbe88bbf5328f59be359ebd6e0a1b SHA-256: f11cdff56a4a508aa4fae82d6cac6604ac1055eca027eaf38776516661013836
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is a dropper for further malicious content. The document body content is not indicative of user-facing text and appears to be malformed or obfuscated data.

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
65dd42e755050c50a8c075755bcf70bc100b29275c877c2201a8f3887e29a4f9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11335 bytes