Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7cd776e6cfd83aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 4534c5634608202c2f95266b14cbaaa8 SHA-1: 493a3849dd00b4260a8043d5b0670569af855037 SHA-256: f7cd776e6cfd83aa0eb603b15945e953372cbd61bfc6ce4ba59389360fb6102f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content, 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 artifact 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload. The XFA form structure might be leveraged for the exploit.

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
f8d72ee0c3c239b0f2bfc2c99949ff576af44d9d46e0f72382f5e87033719b6d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11217 bytes