Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7899102248259bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: bdbd03f5f02e062f928e62a23aa12805 SHA-1: 63d1073ae475e7ef572c1ac986d6be71bca1fd39 SHA-256: f7899102248259bde27ad71396572456a45317ed1ec816d6b44fa2c11bf31021
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, common techniques for delivering exploits. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports this assessment. While no specific script content was detailed, the embedded nature and exploit detection strongly suggest a payload delivery mechanism.

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
d65183db12c3a65f83ec9b28fde07ffe27f5c1371cf3a8f68febb4e9f24cdd6e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 11521 bytes