Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3415598eae50a5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: 5cf48fcc6c426e40024c89a7d74e78e8 SHA-1: c9cacd9e8577f410e5ea73fcd3bbdd63c54eb692 SHA-256: f3415598eae50a5cc5d045515c8b7bcc13b840a95ddfc208d0184ee233047dcc
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78', suggesting it's a known exploit dropper. The embedded file and XFA form suggest a complex delivery mechanism designed to execute the 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
239666d7d4b3f0e0a5b7cce894947ca2a264c20431539b392c9f03117d1299ee
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11662 bytes