Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb265537cb70cbb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: edfea8609e7ce045e71b7e30d22206da SHA-1: dcb096ec5c783e2b19bf48f1afd46f395e510114 SHA-256: fb265537cb70cbb7270861b1c391f5972cbf75f9fc051993f04e99c112e4ecb1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with PDF and XFA form structures.

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
14d95f0a10bcf1928d82c7fbacc6c090dcad9c0ea6e054d4ad5c3d9b03bba89c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11230 bytes