Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9d8a1ccd52cf0c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 2dc046c8008b4726dabfa009db71f078 SHA-1: 83cbdc202b922c8e0d60951437dbc2470c8d552d SHA-256: f9d8a1ccd52cf0c10e7b76e0f57cc4cbb243f5efb1e917e2bc83c7dba598bdf2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a high ML classifier score. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is intended to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious exploit delivery.

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
d0205520d20f557c029e2fbf2caed0d623567c600a7f0d062e4d23a0caebe858
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18757 bytes