Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43a9d7e55cd433e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: 9f1e659a962f1ee08629a8d1d956de34 SHA-1: 0b155173b141099f6589315b2f250d56a97e914e SHA-256: f43a9d7e55cd433e17a250368ac7ba7fa1a1e47263ecf1826db5827ab60933e8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent. The PDF structure suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

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
6ac6918856fd818dbfba2d1d71a54490da23b4aae9130aceed3ca02cd810e484
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11345 bytes