Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff6bdb10c81f8e3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 365567ca4212293968b84c62ce62bd10 SHA-1: 7c2a14593339d4c6f03914dfde4dde4ba8f72551 SHA-256: ff6bdb10c81f8e3e496dbbc8fb00c5dd62c24aa3f54886632551fc6c9acb9ebb
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and is flagged by multiple detection engines, including ClamAV, as a malicious exploit. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded URL further support its malicious nature.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
aeb24dd4f57727830e65bd5d9ab1b1b337157bf752286c258973e29e6afe75b4
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14309 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely