Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8f43e40b74c8f1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: a323af8fb9dfb7e54d7f8509bc744730 SHA-1: 017ae527f650c69ae7fe7ac7f47ce0bc39c2805e SHA-256: f8f43e40b74c8f1a325b1e4ee7b6de1e5e7603934fa4da934ba9e20e97e5b2eb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78). The presence of an embedded script payload and embedded file strongly suggests it's designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. While no specific family is identified, the attack pattern is consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

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
d7de7b197b1d857dc260556d02f019e22cf67e91a2d1ee40b9adae82c780cb87
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11307 bytes