Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faa655c892164395…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB
MD5: 994f103f8f229afd2534ee7401cf9e96 SHA-1: 3ac6faa9e7dae462cbf7fe2c773b4166c1205bcb SHA-256: faa655c892164395d7fd5ad39745875726304cf84dff057173cc7aa5a8995d6b
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. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it is designed to drop and execute further malicious content. The XFA form structure is also noted, which has been historically exploited in PDF malware.

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
2feeb7974cf238d82ad16f8a0d4407df13219deea463957adfeaaa10bddf04e8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18766 bytes