Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc3b23b9e342429b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 1e2cbdebc93b4676ef5a53409724dd55 SHA-1: 64a12fe66f79c9fe0cdf3f27125ef2cf82617fd2 SHA-256: fc3b23b9e342429bf794acb4e18d8330b17741c6ec778b2c2fa0484846dc4136
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malware. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are known to be a vector for PDF exploits.

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
374d613dc4505ebc9d0868751e3192dd1a5051a5548e6bf04da9b0e870fed9ba
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11200 bytes