Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9f0e677ad4ce56d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB
MD5: 33eb39ff3c36a39c0b8701d3080a78c9 SHA-1: e3d141b6e7bc0003e5abf1a87289f41c1cac793c SHA-256: f9f0e677ad4ce56d627a8fab1184f95d9e5023c123b229f61d41e436648b86f4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs, though some are benign, are common in exploit delivery documents.

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
54a2fe08b8a1142d53a0fa992dd09e2b102e30de9652000cdf18ea459947a399
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11824 bytes