PDF malware analysis — malicious · 109b5da247dc94e3

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB Created: 2010-12-23 23:58:32 Authoring application: ply vav

MD5: 83b8bbad4236a82fe678a72923b027df SHA-1: f84ae2e6e00a010f040a262855e483d957b3d5dd SHA-256: 109b5da247dc94e3f09ee2521ea4cab39e7ad01dca07517fa8de2552e47973f1

258 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document utilizes XFA (XML Forms Architecture) with embedded JavaScript to perform a heap spray attack, a known technique for exploiting vulnerabilities in PDF readers. The critical heuristic 'PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY' indicates the presence of exploit code. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7229960-0' further confirms its malicious nature as a dropper. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 9

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7229960-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7229960-0
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0xE7E	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0019.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0xF30	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0005.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0x1020	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `9309943dbe239d4608c31502bb363fe65dc70f918230a28c6fccb5bf75f57546`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x1110	119 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x11C7	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x126D	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `cf51fbe1916b24ef75ce22b7cbe3d312ee71860416d1c50203b29de4b158aa36`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x15A5	11193 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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