Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d6854880f8ba9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.9 KB
MD5: 63aaa8ade2471c709a81e0980ae76366 SHA-1: 399060b7cb7c8bb36a404d3ab0bf82625e20def6 SHA-256: f3d6854880f8ba9c1623872773ae7f98a669cc2e11906a918180c870a6f23fef
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms further supports its malicious nature. While specific script content is not detailed, the overall structure and detection point to a delivery mechanism for a secondary 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
ece8f98213d1cfa0c3e32c9b069494fefca09daef4ecb1cc585084590c4c4e79
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11402 bytes