Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084baf67e6dce4ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB Created: 2010-09-20 17:50:25 Authoring application: aff mix
MD5: 4e16fa074d5270b208afbfc7288fa331 SHA-1: 48f0b4a83064dee012fbee024672b349d9474164 SHA-256: 084baf67e6dce4adffed2df2a4b39d1f5a2a56099539d5f0d22652d89937b88a
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY heuristic indicates that the sample contains exploit code designed to trigger this vulnerability. This code likely executes JavaScript, as indicated by the PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics, which is then used to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 8

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY
    PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xAAE 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0xB60 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0004.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0xC50 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
c70f0f6941ec09308a84484db705c8e156e09a8384cb76ae8a9057104081815b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xD41 119 bytes
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0xDF8 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0xE9F 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
3fd9922ee14376eb062160c05ccc6b3b4d4acc13558b75a7d26e652d720ac9c2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x11D8 11216 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).

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