Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff03123886dfdff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 10db338507c53470aa1213956c2e4b93 SHA-1: a496c1229c7016fbdd4b1a077bbf299c5c3203e6 SHA-256: ff03123886dfdff977c59b7e6939093313e9cb82cfc6eaa848fa74706cca1ba0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with critical and high heuristic firings indicating an embedded script payload and exploit. The PDF structure also suggests XFA forms and embedded files, common in exploit delivery. While no specific script content was provided for analysis, the presence of these indicators strongly suggests the PDF is intended to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload.

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
918650a3da7170114ff24c3700c6d4180d68ab6bf32471e7a154de1ec6f608fa
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11244 bytes